Anger after bid to save Remploy factory from closure denied

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Published by Max Salsbury for 24dash.com in Communities and also in Central Government, Housing, Local Government

A factory that employed 52 disabled people and had a council contract to build kitchens for social homes has been closed - despite an offer by a company to take the operation on.The factory and its machinery is now to be sold off by owner Remploy. Remploy ran the factory on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The DWP has said that the factory was making annual loses of £900,000.Stoke-based company Disability Employment Ltd made an expression of interest in the factory but was tur...

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