31st August 2006, 04:01 PM
I agree with 1man1desk on this. Curatorial and contracting services have no place being together whatsoever. I don't have any confidence in the Chinese Wall principle either. It may well be a model which has tacit support from the IFA and various local authorities (including one that has astonishingly recently placed these two services back together after years of seperation), but that doesn't make it correct. Even if the internal mechanisms are robust enough to make any seperation between services effective, the external perception is that the two live in each others pockets anyway, so what's the point?