A COUNCIL leader says she is "not proud" of a report showing how badly Redcar and Cleveland is lagging behind other areas when it comes to quality of life indicators.
The report, which is produced each year for elected members, highlighted how dismally the borough was faring on measures such as child poverty, secondary school performance, new business start ups and youth unemployment.
Labour’s Chris Massey, who is chairman of the council’s resources scrutiny committee, said that the borough was going backwards in the majority of the indicators in the profile report.
Cllr Lanigan said: “It makes for unpleasant reading in key areas and there are some very difficult challenges with covid providing another knock.”