'The people behind the seafront feel left behind'
Average weekly earnings and disposable income are lower in Great Yarmouth than the rest of Norfolk - but unemployment is higherThe Communities on the Edge report, published on Wednesday, reveals that nearly one in five jobs in coastal communities pay below the living wage and warns that levelling-up policies are at risk of failing to turn around decades of inequality.
"When you do get an opportunity like a seasonal job or cleaning work it doesn't pay very well and as soon as the seasonal work ends, you've then got to go back on to universal credit and that is a struggle because of the wait time," she says. Sandy, who left school with few qualifications, says a lot of the jobs are in engineering or involve driving - neither of which she can do - or travelling.
She is a single mother."I want to wake up and do something that I really enjoy that is worthwhile, but I feel that we're not looked at as being people that really deserve it, that we're not really worth it," she says.
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