 in the society's manifesto is music to CIFA ears, and it's familiar music at that. CIFA and Historic England are co-leading the 21st century archaeology program. It's a collaborative program of strategic improvements for archaeology in England, building on the Southport Report and other initiatives. It's designed around responses from sector workshops in 2017 to 18, which asked if archaeology was safe in the planning system. They identified many problems with the current system, but the workshops also revealed that many important players are nervous about radical change, especially structural changes. This shared program recognizes that effective change means keeping all, or nearly all, parties on board. Collaborative working means not moving as fast as some of us would like, but by majoring on informed understanding, respect, reassurance, compromise and persistence, genuine progress is being made, including in many areas identified by the manifesto as right for reform. CIFA's lead areas are advocacy, skills and standards. And my colleagues will tell you more about that now. So as Pete says, there are various elements relating to encouraging advocacy in the 21CAP program. And in thinking about the future of archaeology, approaching this subject pragmatically and collectively as a sector is likely to be extremely important. Working through the 21CAP with Historic England, with support from other sector bodies on the program's steering group, CIFA is leading on work that has developed case study evidence about how archaeology works within the existing planning system, and we've been promoting this evidence for archaeological organizations to use in advocacy to help us argue for the improvement of planning provisions in ongoing government reform. We are also leading on work to promote foresight in sector advocacy, discussing collaboratively with sector bodies how we discuss, agree and approach these advocacy objectives. We're also working alongside Al Geo to explore the resilience of local authority archaeology services. We're currently planning a survey and a set of focus groups of service users and providers, which will look at challenges and opportunities for archaeology service development. We are not looking to provide a one size fits all solution, but what we hope is that we're able to take examples of innovative practice and discuss possible solutions, providing comparative information and ideas which can be considered by individual services as appropriate. There may be an opportunity to discuss some of the ideas that are introduced through the SAAL manifesto through this work. Enhancing and promoting professional standards and guidance across different areas of archaeological practice to increase public benefit is a project objective for the 21st century challenges for archaeology program. This is integral to the work being undertaken by CFA with the standards and guidance underpinning the code of conduct and forming part of a regulatory framework that encourages strong ethics, high professional standards and consistency in practice to maximise the benefits that archaeologists bring to society. At present, CFA is contributing to this programme with work that includes a reformat of the CFA standards and guidance, specifically the separation of the standard which forms the measurable outcome from the guidance which outlines the process. The guidance is being further split to provide more detailed global, national and regional information to support its application with the detailed guidance for England specifically promoting the importance of consistency and comparability of datasets. Collaborative working is key and with the support of those involved with the programme and others across the historic environment sector, any gaps in technical guidance will also be reviewed and addressed where possible. This work as part of the 21CAP programme will hopefully help to address some of the points highlighted in the manifesto. The need for archaeologists to have the skills, integrity and versatility to deliver the widest possible public benefit underpins the 21st century challenges in archaeology programme as it does CFA's own strategic plan. We need archaeologists to have the professional competence and the professional confidence to work innovatively, challenging and developing methodologies and utilising and adapting new technologies in their work. Although the need for professional skills and competence doesn't constitute a strand in its own right within 21CAP, it forms a golden thread that runs through the work packages. A successful delivery of the programme and more importantly the change it seeks to achieve is contingent on having access to the right skills. Thinking differently about the way we do archaeology requires a sustainable diverse profession. Challenges around the recruitment and retention of archaeologists think to the ongoing impact of Brexit, the Covid pandemic and current cost of living crisis make it ever more important to support careers in archaeology, in terms of the routes to becoming an archaeologist and the routes to progress and be valued as an archaeologist. CFA is working with sector partners to deliver more diverse entry routes and to support professional development and progression, including through apprenticeships, accredited degree programmes, CPD opportunities and vocational training, which deliver not only the skills we need in 21CAP, but the professional accreditation we need to demonstrate the value of what 21CAP do.