480 Tata steel workers helped to retrain after redundancy
It is nearly a year since Tata Steel announced it was shedding 685 workers from its speciality steels business in Rotherham and Stocksbridge '“ but what happened to them?
The bombshell announcement triggered an unprecedented campaign of support.
A rapidly assembled Steel Taskforce secured pledges of £9million to help pay for re-training and support for the supply chain.
Today, some 480 workers have been helped.