Inside the vital service supporting Teesside's most deprived
Middlesbrough is one of five local authorities with the highest proportion of neighbourhoods among the most deprived in England
By Kevin Gopal, first published 03 April 2024
Both of Tonia Nixon’s phones are ringing. On the other end of the one she can answer is a father with a six-month baby in desperate need of a cot. The call she can’t respond to at the moment probably comes with a similar request.
Nixon is sitting at a table between the kitchen and the clothes racks …



