The number of rough sleepers on the streets of Liverpool hit a record high last year.
New government figures show that there were 36 people sleeping rough on the streets of the city on a single night in Autumn last year, which is used to provide a snapshot of numbers. This number is a rise of 20 on the year before and significantly is the highest number the city has recorded since records started in 2010.
The city's figures come against a backdrop of soaring rough sleeping rates across the country. The data from the Department of Levelling Up shows that the number of people sleeping rough in England rose by more than a quarter last year.
