27-417: Esho is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Mark Esho (born 1962), British entrepreneur Tijion Esho (born 1981), British doctor [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Esho . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
54-437: A Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths will notify a person who registers a death about using the service. DWP transferred to a cloud-based service in 2016 using the government's G-Cloud purchasing process for IT services. The Crown Commercial Service states that "cutting administration costs and reducing the overpayments of benefits – usually because of out-of-date records of people's personal circumstances – protected
81-428: A Service Manager for Mosaic, a local charity. Due to chronic fatigue caused by his childhood polio, he decided to start his own business instead of continuing a nine-to-five job. Esho started Houses-Online in 1999, a property listing website. The project ended shortly afterwards, and Esho started a second business in 2000 under the name Rank4U. At the time it was one of only four search engine optimisation companies in
108-879: A number of years. Esho has also participated in several wheelchair tennis tournaments. He was involved in the first ever Loughborough Wheelchair Tennis Open at Loughborough University in 2014, and the first Grantham Tennis Club wheelchair tournament in August 2015. Department for Work and Pensions King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP )
135-572: A policy of cold-calling vulnerable and disabled people to attempt to pressure them into accept lower benefit claims than they were legally entitled. In July 2021 the DWP agreed to stop after it was threatened with legal action. DWP administers the Disability Confident scheme, which supports employers to employ people with disabilities and to maintain the employment of staff who become disabled. The scheme operates as three levels: The scheme
162-534: A vocal supporter of remote monitoring software for employees. In 2020, Mark co-founded Access Rating , a social enterprise and disabled access consultancy. The Access Rating app was released online, allowing disabled people to submit access reviews for public venues across the UK. Esho was the winner of first ever National Diversity Award for Business Excellence in September 2012. Easy Internet went on to sponsor
189-596: Is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom . It is responsible for welfare , pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. It is the second largest governmental department in terms of employees, and
216-692: Is a British entrepreneur. He is the founder and co-owner of both Easy Internet Services Ltd and Easy Internet Solutions Lt. Esho was born in Leicestershire in 1962. At the age of five, he contracted polio , leaving him paralysed from the neck down. He was originally given a 10% chance of survival, but was eventually able to regain limited mobility. Esho moved to Nigeria at the age of eight to start mainstream school, before returning to Leicester at 18. He later completed an MBA at De Montfort University . Esho worked for seven years in Leicester as
243-454: Is intended to encourage employers to "think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people", but the DWP lost more disability discrimination cases at employment tribunal than any other employer in Britain between 2016 and 2019. The DWP introduced the "Tell Us Once" system in 2011 to enable people to use a single interface to inform
270-575: The Health and Safety Executive , The Pensions Regulator and the Money and Pensions Service. The department was created on 8 June 2001 as a merger of the Department of Social Security , Employment Service and the policy groups of the Department for Education and Employment involved in employment policy and international issues. The department was initially tasked with creating Jobcentre Plus and
297-528: The DWP was still using ICL VME based computer systems originating from its 1988 Pension Service Computer System to support state pension payments. The software was migrated to an in-house VME replacement system, in one of the largest computer replacement projects in Europe. DWP ministers are as follows: The Permanent Secretary is Sir Peter Schofield . With the creation of the department in June 2001,
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#1732786851702324-607: The National Diversity Awards in Leeds the following year. In October 2012, he presented the Young Person Award at the 11th African and African Caribbean Achievement Awards. In February 2013, Esho was interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester about his own story and government support for disabled jobseekers. In July 2013, Esho met with Prime Minister David Cameron and featured as a case study as part of
351-704: The Pension Service was created, bringing together many different departments and divisions. The Pension Service is a 'dedicated service for current and future pensioners'. The Pension Service consists of local Pension Centres and centrally-based centres, many of latter are based at the Tyneview Park complex in Newcastle upon Tyne . The following centres are at Tyneview Park: Local Pension Centres deal with localised claims for state pension and retirement related benefits. Pension Centres are found all over
378-644: The Pensions Service from the Employment Service and the Benefits Agency . The department became responsible for welfare and pension policy. It aims "to help its customers become financially independent and to help reduce child poverty ". In 2012, the department fully subsumed pensions, disability and life events under the DWP name; Jobcentre Plus and Child Maintenance Service remain as distinct identities publicly. Until 2021,
405-580: The Queen Victoria Arts Club in the city's cultural quarter. It was attended by local business representatives, Rotarians and friends and family. This was followed by a London launch hosted at Rotary HQ and attended by the Rotary polio ambassador Konnie Huq. Esho is a keen player and supporter of wheelchair sports teams. His company Easy Internet Services has sponsored The Leicester Cobras, a local wheelchair basketball club and charity, for
432-401: The UK, and serviced clients including The Guardian and The Co-operative Group . In the following years, Esho developed two companies simultaneously: Easy Internet Services (search engine optimisation, now under the name 123 Ranking) and Easy Internet Solutions (later Free Virtual Servers, later FVS Hosting). Both businesses were early adopters of employing remote workers, and Esho has been
459-800: The Year Award". In 2016, Easy Internet Solutions became a patron of the Leicestershire Law Society . Later the same year, Esho was nominated at the Institute of Directors East Midlands Director of the Year Awards, which took place on 30 June 2016. He was awarded a Highly Commended certificate in the category of "Director of the Year SME – Small". In 2019, Mark won the Institute of Director's East Midlands Director of
486-620: The Year Awards for Inclusivity, making him a finalist for the nationwide awards. Esho was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to business. In 2022, Mark was included in The Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 list, recognising the 100 most influential disabled people living and working in the UK. In 2018, Mark's first book, 'I Can. I Will.'
513-454: The country. Benefits dealt with at local Pension Centres include: The Disability and Carers Service offers financial support for those who are disabled and their carers, whether in or out of employment. The DCS have offices throughout the country and deal with the following benefits: The department has been found to frequently invite disabled people to interviews in buildings which are themselves not accessible to people with disabilities. When
540-774: The cross-government savings generated by Tell Us Once, estimated at more than £20 million per year. By switching from a physical infrastructure to a cloud solution, DWP has also benefited from cost savings of around 50% on the IT running costs of Tell Us Once". Before 2008, The Pension Service and the Disability and Carers Service were two separate executive agencies ; however it was decided in April 2008 to merge them into one entity named The Pension, Disability and Carers Service. Both former agencies kept their corporate branding and provided services under their separate identities. The decision
567-561: The government about a change in their personal circumstances. Using 'Tell Us Once', departments and agencies like the pensions service, HM Revenue & Customs , the Passport Office and local authorities are informed about a person's change in circumstances in parallel, removing the need for "repeated, unnecessary form-filling". Local authority departments making use of the service include libraries, housing departments, " Blue Badge " services and adult social care. In most cases,
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#1732786851702594-522: The government's Disability Confident programme. Esho's continued support for disabled employees and jobseekers in the UK has also been cited by the government's Great Business initiative and the Minister of State for Disabled People at the time, Mike Penning . In November 2013, Esho was part of the judging panel for the Leicester Mercury 's "Leicestershire's Young Business Executive of
621-524: The person does not attend the interview they deny the person disability benefits, causing malnutrition and destitution. The DWP systematically underpaid disabled claimants who were transferred from Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support allowance, risking hardship for claimants. A cross party committee of MPs, the Public Accounts Committee accused the DWP of a culture of indifference to claimants. Since at least 2020 DWP has had
648-408: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Esho&oldid=1047363735 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Monitored short pages Mark Esho Mark Abayomi Esho MBE (born 17 August 1962)
675-661: The second largest in terms of expenditure (£228bn as of July 2021 ). The department has two delivery services: Jobcentre Plus administers working age benefits: Universal Credit , Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance ; the Child Maintenance Service provides the statutory child support scheme. DWP also administers State Pension , Pension Credit , disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment , and support for life events from Maternity Allowance to bereavement benefits . Non-departmental bodies accountable to DWP include
702-473: Was made due to the two agencies sharing about half of the same customers; as a single agency, the rationalisation of services would provide a better service for customers. The status of PDCS as an executive agency (and its existence as a merged entity) was removed on 1 October 2011 with the functions being brought back inside the department; and both The Pension Service and the Disability and Carers Service becoming distinct entities once again. Prior to July 2012
729-525: Was published by Rethink Press. The book describes how he contracted polio at the age of five and the effect it had on his life. It discusses the difficulties he experienced in accessing education and the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father, before eventually becoming a successful businessman. Esho covers topics such as racial discrimination and disability and ends each chapter with a reflection on his struggles and lessons he has learned. The Leicester book launch took place on Thursday 27 September 2018 at
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