The council will provide accommodation to those without any accommodation available.
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A policy to provide accommodation to people where there is a likelihood of rough sleeping has been reinstated by the council for the latest lockdown.
In the first lockdown in March last year, the government gave councils two days notice to house all the homeless for the lockdown, but this has since not be repeated by the government for the following lockdowns.
However, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has decided to house the homeless in the borough for this lockdown.
A spokesperson for the council said: At the moment the numbers are not as high as we experienced in March, however it is only a few days since the lockdown was announced by the Prime Minister last Monday.