30th June 2013, 11:06 PM
This is surely old news. I am certainly aware of one local council that was going to abandon its list and only point people in the direction of the IfA RO list and another council that has for years wording to the effect that work must be carried out by AIfA level or equivalent. Of course, the latter got round the problem of insisting IfA membership but it provides a bench mark, however impossible to enforce. The council lists have been a joke for ages anyway for despite resolutely not being a list of recommendations, they effectively are because you usually can't just ring up and ask to get on one without jumping through some hoops to prove competence. Where's the story? If CPAT have specifically said that only MIfAs or ROs can carry out the work maybe that is a legal step to far, but if you can't be arsed to join the IfA why not? Stop trotting out the same old excuses. (And yes, the Illustrators becoming MIfAs does make a bit of a mockery of the whole thing).