Dealing with Auto Industry Rundown and Closures: a perspective from Birmingham Challenges facing Mono-Sectoral Cities, Open Days 2010

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5. Training and policy support

Over 60% of respondents have had some form of training since closure
This is a higher figure than that reported in previous studies. Related to the specific and job-relevant nature of training and education taken up?
A majority of these retrained for ‘positive’ reasons…

Wide ranging and speedy policy response – 86% made a benefit claim (82% registered within two weeks)
Most used policy support: job fair, information on job opportunities, help from job centre plus, free place on a training course
Most helpful support: free travel to a training course or job interview; a free place on a training course; being sent on a training course by a new employer; help with setting up a business.
… yet most people who found a new job did so through their own initiative or through personal contacts 70%

Workers in full time job: male, younger, worked slightly less longer at MG Rover
Workers in self-employment: older, more qualified, in managerial position at MG Rover and owned their own home
Workers in part-time job: female, higher qualifications, worked longer at MG Rover and now work in services
Unemployed and looking for work: older, lower qualifications and did not own their own home
Inactive: close to retirement age, female, lower levels of education and own their own home.

In job	3 months after the closure	8 months after the closure	3 years after the closure
Age
Qualification level
Managerial position	47%	46%	36%
Using same skill
Now working in services	56%	68%	66%
Had training since leaving MG Rover
Travel distance	40%	56%	25%
Median income
Proportion who increased their income	30%	30%	7%

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