The charity wants to see the return of the Everyone In scheme, which was launched last March during the first lockdown of the pandemic to help councils ensure rough sleepers were housed.
Everyone In saw £3.2m in emergency targeted funding for councils to provide immediate accommodation for those living on the streets. The government says 90 per cent of rough sleepers known to councils were offered accommodation through the scheme.
But Centrepoint says that the scheme is once again needed as councils and charities are struggling to deal with the scale of homelessness amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the latest lockdown.
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