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

Business Support

• 170 component suppliers received cash through the wage replacement scheme;
• This kept around 3000 workers in jobs during the critical months after collapse, with 1329 confirmed ‘saved’
• Advantage Transition Fund: make loans to firms

2. The workers...

• Where are the ex-workers 3-4 years after the closure?
• Where the workers have found work and where they live?
• How the workers have been affected by the closure and how they have coped?
• What support they have had, how useful it was?
• What work or education or training they have gone onto?
• Where they have worked?
• Whether they have experienced unemployment?
• How they feel about their new jobs?
• What has been the impact of the closure on their health?