London politics
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1 week agoLast-ditch call to save police front counters
Ten London police front counters will close, reducing 37 to 27 and leaving only two 24-hour counters, raising concerns for vulnerable residents.
People are dying in unsafe accommodation and communities are being irreversibly damaged due to delays to a new law to clamp down on unregulated supported housing in England. It has been more than two years since the Supported Housing Act, a private member's bill brought by the Conservative MP Bob Blackman, that applies to England and Wales, was given royal assent but it has yet to be implemented due to delays in creating the regulations.