High Court rules councils can lawfully accommodate street homeless people with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ – will the government now provide proper guidance?

By Robert Brown, solicitor at Shelter Legal  When the government asked councils to bring ‘Everyone In’ off the streets and out of the pandemic last year, local authority staff across the country pulled out all the stops to accommodate thousands over the course of a single weekend. No mean feat.   But we know that not … Continue reading High Court rules councils can lawfully accommodate street homeless people with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ – will the government now provide proper guidance?