Dear John,

In the first case of its kind, our client Sarah Ward has just been granted permission to take Poole Council to court for its Public Spaces Protection Order which criminalises homelessness. 

Councils have the power to create Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) banning activities they decide have a detrimental effect on the lives of others. Poole is one of many local authorities to use a PSPO to ban rough sleeping and begging – but criminal punishment can’t possibly solve homelessness. 

Our case could bring about the end of these counterproductive PSPOs, but we shouldn’t have to go to court at all. The Government can scrap the power to make them whenever it wants, and it must be a top priority for whoever enters No 10 after the General Election.

As candidates vie for your vote, challenge them on this cruel criminalisation of poverty.

But this isn’t the only pressing human rights issue at stake in this election.
In the UK today people are being locked up without release dates and the intelligence agencies can spy on all of us whether or not we’re suspected of wrongdoing. Police are using facial recognition technology on the streets, legal aid has been decimated, and Parliament voted to scrap the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights after Brexit.

The Liberty Manifesto lays out our key demands of everyone standing for election, and what we will strive towards regardless of who forms the next Government. 

Claim your free copy today, share it with your friends and family, and take your local candidates to task with it.

Together we have the power to change things for the better. Let’s use it.

Best Wishes,

Pippa Johnson
Development Director

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