{"id":1090,"date":"2008-09-09T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2008-09-09T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T19:20:09","slug":"farewell-to-the-ncc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the NCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc.org.uk\/\">National Consumer Council<\/a> &#8211; which was created by a Labour Government in 1975 &#8211; had its last Council meeting and a farewell reception for stakeholders. On 1 October, the NCC will merge with Energywatch and Postwatch to form a new stronger consumer body called Consumer Focus.<br \/>\nI am currently on the Council of Postwatch and the Board of Consumer Focus and I went along to the reception. It was addressed by Maurice Healy who was Chief Executive of the NCC from 1986-1991 and recounted some tales from that time.<br \/>\nMaurice was preceded as CEO by Jeremy Mitchell (1977-1985) who was until recently a member of the Ofcom Consumer Panel; he was followed as CEO by Ruth Evans (1992-1998) who is just about to finish being Vice-Chair of the Panel and then by Anna Bradley (1999-2002) who has recently become Chair of the Panel. Since I am a member of the Ofcom Consumer Panel, I have worked with all three of these colleagues &#8211; small world.<br \/>\nThe last Chief Executive of the NCC was Ed Mayo (2003-2008) who is now the dynamic CEO of Consumer Focus where I am enjoying working with him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the National Consumer Council &#8211; which was created by a Labour Government in 1975 &#8211; had its last Council meeting and a farewell reception for stakeholders. On 1 October, the NCC will merge with Energywatch and Postwatch to form a new stronger consumer body called Consumer Focus. I am currently on the Council of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}