Councils in England and Wales hatch their own solutions to prostitution
An ineffective national law means cities are devising local, often controversial, initiatives.
CLUTCHING a cup of tea handed out by volunteers, Tracey waves at passing cars. She is one of 80 sex workers who ply their trade in Holbeck’s “managed area”, an industrial part of Leeds where, from 8pm to 6am, prostitutes can solicit and punters can kerb-crawl without getting collared by the police. Tracey says she would rather not be out tonight, but she needs cash for heroin.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Sex, drugs and non-enforcement”
Britain September 15th 2018
- The unlikely survival of May’s Chequers plan for Brexit
- Boris Johnson’s bid for the Tory leadership
- Labour launches a worker-ownership plan
- Britain’s electoral system favours not Labour but the Conservatives
- Rebuilding British higher education’s most unusual institution
- Councils in England and Wales hatch their own solutions to prostitution
- British hospitals are having a dementia-friendly makeover
- A hunger for new thought
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