When a top employer doses or announces massive redundancies, it can have a devastating effect on the local economy. Councils have to act quickly and decisively to ensure that unemployment figures do not soar and drag the area down. In the last 12 months, several local authorities have been hit by high-profile closures and as a result, tried to pick up the pieces and help residents move on. Birmingham City Council played a key role during the MG Rover crisis, when the company went bust, leaving 6,100 workers at the Longbridge plant without jobs last year.
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