Radio Jackie’s Phillip Barr goes onto the streets with homelessness charities in Part 1 of our special series looking at the UK’s rough sleeping crisis.

Over the past 10 years the amount of people rough sleeping has risen by 164% in England.

There is a large coalition of charities, government programmes and volunteers who are there to help.

Over the course of three episodes we are going to bring you first hand accounts from the people working to help rough sleepers and look into the reasons why more people are finding themselves on the streets.

In the process of our reporting we worked with charities SPEAR and KCAH as well as CRISIS.