Task force help for Clancey staff
A Rover-style task force has been sent into doomed Black Country firm Clancey to help find new jobs for more than 200 workers.
A team from Halesowen's job centre in Queensway spent the day at the Cradley plant, in Saltbrook Road, as the scheme to arrange retraining and new employment for staff got under way.
MP Lynda Waltho, whose constituency the plant falls into, welcomed the move.
"I am delighted because that amount of redundancies can have a terrible effect on an area," she said.
"The team will be talking to people on an individual basis to work out what jobs they may be suitable for, or with a view to retraining.
"In some cases people will look to go straight into jobs, but because the skills many of them have are so specialised, there is nowhere else in the area where they could be used."
Mark Orton, from administrators KPMG, said the firm would be as cooperative as possible.
The scheme is similar to the one launched after more than 6,000 jobs were lost in the £1.4bn collapse of car giants MG Rover last year.
The Express & Star exclusively revealed news of the closure earlier this month, in a move that marked the latest in a series of blows to the region's once proud manufacturing industry.
