The top 10 is dominated by organisations from the legal and housing sectors with local government, education, health and social care also prominent in the top 100. Campaign group Stonewall has named MI5 Britain ’s most advanced and inclusive employer when it comes to ensuring the nurturing and development of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, according to a workplace equality index. The placing of the domestic intelligence agency at the top of the list of the Stonewall Top 25 Employers completes a remarkable shift in culture: its first efforts to recruit gay staff and encourage those employees already in post to be open about their sexuality did not occur until last year . It was ranked 100 in the Stonewall rankings in 2013 and seventh 2008 . Lloyds Banking Group was ranked second .
Campaign group Stonewall has named MI5 Britain ’s most advanced and inclusive employer when it comes to ensuring the nurturing and development of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, according to a workplace equality index. The placing of the domestic intelligence agency at the top of the list of the Stonewall Top 25 Employers completes a remarkable shift in culture: its first efforts to recruit gay staff and encourage those employees already in post to be open about their sexuality did not occur until last year . It was ranked 100 in the Stonewall rankings in 2013 and seventh 2008 . Lloyds Banking Group was ranked second .