26th October 2011, 01:13 PM
I would only see this as a good thing but, unless a few things have changed since I looked into this, I have three questions:
1 - will the IfA be increasing the rate paid by ROs with a turnover of significantly above 1millon? At present the highest fee is for '?1millon and above', which means that the largest organisations (with turnover in the region of 10millon) are paying a proportionately lower fee to be an RO.
2 - the online and search facility for finding an RO is utter rubbish and needs to be enhanced. At present if you search for one on your doorstep you get the details of every organisation on the list, which I would imagine is quite off-putting for potential clients.
3 - what happens to literal one-man-bands who are in the IfA or small organisations, all of whose staff are members (paid for by their employer or otherwise). What is the point of them paying the RO fee when a larger organisation might have less individual IfA members. I would suggest that any organisation/one man band which is 100% corporate members of the IfA should automatically become an RO. If they are found to have been naughty it would only take one individual to be kicked out and the company would revert to not being an RO.
I still can't understand why counties have lists of contractors - they aren't recommendations and yet in most cases you have to pass certain criteria to get on (that sounds like a recommended list to me, plus would people surely not assume that a list held by the council is a list of reputable companies?). Why not point people in the direction of the IfA and the phone book, or BAJR for that matter, if recommedations are not going to be made?
1 - will the IfA be increasing the rate paid by ROs with a turnover of significantly above 1millon? At present the highest fee is for '?1millon and above', which means that the largest organisations (with turnover in the region of 10millon) are paying a proportionately lower fee to be an RO.
2 - the online and search facility for finding an RO is utter rubbish and needs to be enhanced. At present if you search for one on your doorstep you get the details of every organisation on the list, which I would imagine is quite off-putting for potential clients.
3 - what happens to literal one-man-bands who are in the IfA or small organisations, all of whose staff are members (paid for by their employer or otherwise). What is the point of them paying the RO fee when a larger organisation might have less individual IfA members. I would suggest that any organisation/one man band which is 100% corporate members of the IfA should automatically become an RO. If they are found to have been naughty it would only take one individual to be kicked out and the company would revert to not being an RO.
I still can't understand why counties have lists of contractors - they aren't recommendations and yet in most cases you have to pass certain criteria to get on (that sounds like a recommended list to me, plus would people surely not assume that a list held by the council is a list of reputable companies?). Why not point people in the direction of the IfA and the phone book, or BAJR for that matter, if recommedations are not going to be made?