Standard and guidance for archaeological advice by historic environment services

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[SIZE=3]The national heritage agencies have
provided some funding to allow the IfA toemploy a contractor to undertake the
donkey work of preparing a draft standardand managing a a consultation
process.

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How much and where did the funding come from? Who prepared the pre-draft standard? Are you saying that ifa thought about preparing a standard based on apre-draft standard generated from some committee and then thought lets go tothe heritage agencies and get funding for a consultation? And then all the heritage agencies thought this is a good idea lets fund it?

[SIZE=3]The agencies have no control over the
content of the document.

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By what mechanism is this arranged? Is there a contract?

[SIZE=3]The agencies could have gone down a
different route and just issued binding guidance directly.

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Why don?t the agencies (statutory advisors to the government) then, wouldn?t that be binding and direct- particularly in their own jurisdictions with all the implications for ?statutory? local government funding and spending?

Have tried reading the draft and don?t understand why an institute of archaeologists would have standards for charging polices for local government

[SIZE=3]charging policy and schedule based on
full cost recovery should be published.

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Apart from that I think that the rest of the draft is crap and that the ifa should make it their standard and put it with all the other nails in their coffin called "they do not represent archaeologists but civil servants looking to get themselvesthe coat of indispensability for life".

PS I don?t need an HER to do a field evaluation ?it?s a human right you know.