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14th March 2007, 03:09 PM
'At first sight, I agree it is a little worrying to see. However, Geoffrey Wilson (the chair of the committee/Equity Land) evidently has many fingers in many pies: from 2000-3 he was a governer of the Museum of London, and before that was a commissioner with English Heritage.
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page2770.asp. Whether this makes it any better....'
Barnesy - yes it does make it better - many thanks for this info.
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14th March 2007, 06:09 PM
Whats the point in having seat-belt laws and not policing them? The IFA are to be congratulated for writing standards.There you go.Right, now thats out of the way, when do they intend to start policing them and their members? I thought that rail privatisation was a decent parallel-you know, remove national assets from public ownership-throw them out to any unnacccountable muppet in a commercial environment and pretend that everythings a profession cos we wrote standards.
Tiz testicles sir.
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14th March 2007, 07:10 PM
Troll,
We have had this debate about what the IFA should or shouldn't do before, and I don't think we are going to reach an agreement on it. This thread is about the Heritage White Paper, which deals with the Government's proposals, not those of the IFA. Whether or not the IFA police their own standards to your personal satisfaction is irrelevant to the topic in hand.
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15th March 2007, 09:06 PM
With respect sir-no its not.Its been said that the White paper could represent the first "protective" legislation we have seen in 30 years.The IFA know damned well that non policing of their standards has led to a free-for all.This paper could have been used as a launch-pad to finally do something about the pathetic standards allowed to slip the net by curatorial staff.The IFA have chosen to do nothing about this over the past 14 years and chose to ommit this issue when representations were made to the steering committee.I think this is highly relevent. As an aside, I`m not interested in "personal satisfaction"-a single-celled amoeba could see the glaring chasm between writing standards and then standing aside/remaining silent as they are flagrantly flouted as standing operational procedure nationwide (with some exceptions).:face-huh:
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16th March 2007, 01:47 PM
Troll,
I'm afraid that, as I don't accept your basic premise about the IFA's policing of its standards, the rest of your argument falls as far as I am concerned. I don't intend to go into detail about why in this thread, as we have said it all before elsewhere.
This thread is supposed to be about what is in the Government's White Paper, not another opening for you to bash the IFA, which - and I can't emphasise this enough - did not write the White Paper and are not responsible for its content. Please try to stick to the point.
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16th March 2007, 02:29 PM
Heritage White Paper Thread.... Heritage White Paper Thread.... Heritage White Paper Thread.... Heritage White Paper Thread.... Heritage White Paper Thread.... Heritage White Paper Thread.... Heritage White Paper Thread....
IFA Standards Thread .. another thread please.
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