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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

Oct 22, 2024
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Tonia Nixon

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 …

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