20th January 2012, 10:17 PM
The national heritage agencies have provided some funding to allow the IfA to employ a contractor to undertake the donkey work of preparing a draft standard and managing a a consultation process. The agencies have no control over the content of the document. Control of the content is up yo those who read it and respond to the consultation, and then ultimately with the IfA membership who will decide whether to adopt the final version. The agencies could have gone down a different route and just issued binding guidance directly if they anted to act as Unit believes.