A leading homeless charity has said "more must be done" to support rough sleepers.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in the past five years, 22 rough sleepers have died on the streets of St Helens - with five of these coming in the past year. As some homeless deaths may go unrecorded, the ONS estimate the actual figure could be considerably higher than this.
Figures estimate at least 38 homeless people died in Merseyside in 2021. That figure was down from 44 deaths in 2020, but almost three times higher than the 15 homeless deaths estimated in 2013, when these figures were first collected.
