Core Assets, the children’s services group, won the West Midlands Employer of the Year Award at the Midlands region 2015 Workplace Equality Index Awards, hosted by leading gay rights charity Stonewall, in Birmingham. With headquarters in Bromsgrove, Core Assets beat 11 organisations from across the West Midlands that participated in this year’s awards. The win comes shortly after Core Assets were placed 32nd in the Stonewall Top 100 Employers list out of an overall entry of 397 companies to Stonewall’s annual Workplace Equality Index, an annual audit of workplace culture for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) staff.