Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 21 March 2017.
First Minister, unfortunately, the narrative around rough sleeping has been completely toxic. Rather than seeing rough sleepers as poor, unfortunate souls forced to find shelter in shop doorways facing hypothermia and starvation, many have seen them and branded them as delinquents and a scourge to be removed from our high streets. First Minister, do you agree with me that, rather than serving anti-social behaviour orders on these people or locking them up for vagrancy, councils across Wales should be providing shelter and working with the various agencies and partnerships to find them permanent accommodation and support?