2nd January 2007, 05:07 PM
First off happy New Year to you all.
Secondly: at the moment, the RAO scheme is more comparable to schemes like ISO 9000 etc which indicate to clients/suppliers what procedures and standards the company has committed to uphold. ISOs donât have a legal basis in themselves (I think - though they can commit companies to upholding legal principles), but the loss of validation can result in monumental problems as they signal what should be expected. Yearly audits occur (much like RAOs go through) where documents and working practices are inspected for compliance on that day. These schemes, much like the RAO scheme, cannot guarantee on a day to day basis what the company will be doing or indeed not doing, so why is their an expectation for the RAO scheme to be able to do this (as desirable as it may be) when it is restricted to a single profession of limited numbers?
While I agree that curators have a significant (if not exclusive) role to play in monitoring final outputs (whether direct from a contractor or through a consultant), there is little room for them to be able to adequately monitor processes which lead to the outputs, which IFA standards (and an auditable paper trail) could.
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Secondly: at the moment, the RAO scheme is more comparable to schemes like ISO 9000 etc which indicate to clients/suppliers what procedures and standards the company has committed to uphold. ISOs donât have a legal basis in themselves (I think - though they can commit companies to upholding legal principles), but the loss of validation can result in monumental problems as they signal what should be expected. Yearly audits occur (much like RAOs go through) where documents and working practices are inspected for compliance on that day. These schemes, much like the RAO scheme, cannot guarantee on a day to day basis what the company will be doing or indeed not doing, so why is their an expectation for the RAO scheme to be able to do this (as desirable as it may be) when it is restricted to a single profession of limited numbers?
While I agree that curators have a significant (if not exclusive) role to play in monitoring final outputs (whether direct from a contractor or through a consultant), there is little room for them to be able to adequately monitor processes which lead to the outputs, which IFA standards (and an auditable paper trail) could.
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