Home Office revives plan to deport non-UK rough sleepers
by Mark Townsend and Aaron Walawalkar from World news | The Guardian on (#5FVYE)
Priti Patel's ministry has quietly relaunched a covert programme exposed in 2019 by the Observer
The Home Office has quietly relaunched a controversial programme that uses councils and homelessness charities to obtain personal data that could lead to the deportation of non-UK rough sleepers.
Two charities and six councils have signed up to the scheme since it was relaunched six months ago, according to documents obtained by Liberty Investigates, a journalism unit of the human rights organisation Liberty.
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