Lambeth Council will refuse to enforce Home Office rules that mean people can be deported if they sleep rough.
Changes to the Government’s Immigration Rules in December 2020 introduced rough sleeping as grounds to take people’s right to stay in the UK away.
In April, the rules were changed to clarify that permission “may only be refused or cancelled where a person has repeatedly refused suitable offers of support and engaged in persistent anti-social behaviour”.
But Lambeth Council approved a motion on Wednesday night (July 21) to “support refugees to make Lambeth their home”, which included refusing to work with the Home Office on the new rules and to back the #SupportdontDeport campaign.