Bar to self-employment.

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You seem to be confusing the language of job adverts with an employers genuine desire for some form of professional accreditation for their staff Sparky and Unit. But please :face-topic:

BAJR, similarly you seem to believe that a list with everyone on it is of more value than the IfA RO list, a list which at least has some criteria. Not being in the business of a maintaining a 'local list', if asked I would direct poeple to the RO list rather than the Yellow Pages as it does, in my view, have some validity in terms of quality assurance. That is quite distinct from saying that people must use an RO, and I would never 'recommend' a particular unit or individual RO or not. The recent article in The Archaeologist suggests to me that this is quite a moderate stance and that a curator would be on firm legal footing to require all planning related work to be carried out by IfA members or ROs. With the possibility of becoming a chartered organisation looming it seems clear to me which way practice is trending, and this trend is determined by pressure both within the profession and from the industries with which it does business.