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'They get free phones, uniforms and houses. Why can't we?': Despairing parents in England's poverty capital bemoan golden treatment of asylum seekers while they scramble to survive on Universal Credit

In Newport, Middlesbrough, six out of seven children are currently classed as living in poverty, meaning their households have an income that is 60 percent less than average.