17th November 2011, 09:30 AM
BAJR (Hosty) did you contact a number of Councils? I for one would be very interested to see if any Councils do actually require RO status for carrying out work in their patch. I would like to know how this works in practice as it is my experience that the IFA are very guarded about letting people know who is in and out.
One unit in my patch was removed from the IFA and we had no way of knowing until the IFA handbook came out a year later. Rumours are that they are now back in but we will not know for sure until next years handbook. Have tried contacting them (the IFA) but they state that they cannot confirm or deny it.
Even if it was desirable to restrict archaeological work to ROs there would need to be considerable changes to the IFA to introduce some form of reporting system so that Curatorial services knew who was and wasn’t a member.
We maintain a list of the nearest IFA ROs to supply to people, again it is only householders who really ever ask for it, simply because the IFA list is very awkward to navigate but do not restrict work to just ROs.
How would a company start out if everyone did?
One unit in my patch was removed from the IFA and we had no way of knowing until the IFA handbook came out a year later. Rumours are that they are now back in but we will not know for sure until next years handbook. Have tried contacting them (the IFA) but they state that they cannot confirm or deny it.
Even if it was desirable to restrict archaeological work to ROs there would need to be considerable changes to the IFA to introduce some form of reporting system so that Curatorial services knew who was and wasn’t a member.
We maintain a list of the nearest IFA ROs to supply to people, again it is only householders who really ever ask for it, simply because the IFA list is very awkward to navigate but do not restrict work to just ROs.
How would a company start out if everyone did?