13th February 2006, 03:17 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by 1man1desk
Going back a bit in this discussion to the question about obtaining references from curators for candidate RAOs - how could you ensure fairness?
There are still county-council owned units around that share their senior management with the local curatorial body. I know one where the county archaeologist is also the line-manager of the unit head. Some of them actively discourage the involvement of other units in their territory, where they can. There is therefore a significant risk that you would get biased references - in favour of their own unit, and against competing units.
Well you wouldn't ask the local Curator from such a set up to start with anyway, but from somewhere else the unit had worked. Ideally, such units should fall foul of the IFA "conflict of interest" criteria in the RAO application, and fail to be registered. I'd like to see this happen too - curatorial services have no business being located with contracting units.