His work with people on the streets in 60s Britain dragged the country’s approach to tackling homelessness out of the Victorian era.
Anton Wallich-Clifford was an ex-probation officer whose work with the down-and-outs who regularly appeared before Bow Street magistrates court convinced him a top-down, paternalist approach to tackling homelessness was doomed to fail. Instead, he believed there was a need for charities to meet homeless people on their level and earn their trust, a revolutionary approach at the time but one now widely employed.
