Standard and guidance for archaeological advice by historic environment services

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I am still on the trail of which civil servants thought up wonderful the ifa need another standard gravy train constulation. Came across this just recent state the obvious waste of money by another Victorian invention wearers http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/heritage/grants.htm but cant find a way to tell if they are only giving money to close family friends and who they are or where they get their ideas from. Seems they went through a very important backscratching exercise for over two glorious years with the local planners (monies involved not your concern) whilst the credit crunch crunched and the work load dried up

http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/heritage/policy/jointworkingagreement.htm

which presumably sorted out everything that you ever wanted about standards

to ensure that planning authorities and Historic Scotland, work consistently and transparently

to an agreed standard in taking forward the management of the historic environment.

But I cant find any mention that it was discovered that the planners or historic scotland had standardless people pretending to be archaeologists amongst them planning authorities, or historic scooterland.

It does seemto me that we should all agree that these ?archaeologists? do need a standard so that it can be seen that they are not archaeologists and that they need their own university courses to be academically initiated. It appears they want to call themselves?advisors?.

So I chucked this into google -advisors standards

Got this first up -mustn?tlaugh

http://www.dur.ac.uk/eh.rsa/training.html

and this

http://www.dur.ac.uk/eh.rsa/standards.html

but still barking and up wrong tree. What I am looking for is an example of some standard for advice so that the poor protected from spending cuts assistant curators to the person still pretending that there was ever such a thing as a county archaeologist can plead that when they went to councillor fenland that they had not only correctly advised but was it was also standard and they may snigger that this standard was created by IfA and ALGAO, with funding from EnglishHeritage, Historic Scotland and Cadw using wheels within wheels .

Going back to the consulation (but only for second)

This standard and guidance applies to historic environment services (hereafter?advisors?) providing archaeological advice on the designated and undesignated built, buried, intertidal and submerged historic environment, on behalf of a local authority, national park, national heritage agency,charitable trust or other not-for-profit public body. Except where provisions in this document relate specifically to local advisor, archaeological advice by national organisations should comply with this guidance

What I don?tunderstand is- is this standard to be applied to all those working in EnglishHeritage, Historic Scotland and Cadw?

ps cant highlight and change font size in editor