{"id":14123,"date":"2014-03-28T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14123"},"modified":"2014-03-28T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:31:45","slug":"what-now-for-consumer-representation-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14123","title":{"rendered":"What now for consumer representation in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14098\">this posting<\/a>, Consumer Futures &#8211; formerly Consumer Focus &#8211; is about to transfer to Citizens Advice.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has put together a short document to capture the essence of its time as Consumer Focus and Consumer Futures, so that it is on record for future interested parties and as a handover to the successor bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerfutures.us2.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=31c7af683dc15c8be244ceaac&amp;id=65f3265f65&amp;e=5684cb8b26\" target=\"_blank\">Building on the past, Focused on the future<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>outlines the environment the organisation has worked in, the key themes it has learnt, and some of its achievements.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that Citizens Advice will make my Consumer Futures colleagues welcome and strengthen the representation of consumer interests in the energy and postal sectors and indeed other regulated industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I explained in this posting, Consumer Futures &#8211; formerly Consumer Focus &#8211; is about to transfer to Citizens Advice. The organisation has put together a short document to capture the essence of its time as Consumer Focus and Consumer Futures, so that it is on record for future interested parties and as a handover [&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-14123","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\/14123","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=14123"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14132,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions\/14132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}