Fred Mowbray
Overview
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Details
| Local Authority | Surrey |
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| Still active | Yes |
| Title | EHE Advisor |
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| Experience of HE | No known experience of personally home educating a child. |
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Reviews
| Date submitted: | Tue 16th March 2010 |
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Fred Mowbray - Surrey LA is a very dubious character. Some of my favourite things said by Fred are:
"The reason we need to see these (HE) children is because of the Fritzl case (Josef Fritzl) That could very easily happen to home educated children over here." Say what?! "Home educating one child when others are at school never works, in my experience" - And that would be what, Fred? "In my experience, single parent families can't home educate." Bearing in mind that he's been in the job for 3 years maximum and when he joined SCC he sparked an imposter scare as no one (including the call centre staff and main reception) had a clue who he was, his "experience" seems somewhat questionable. He also takes along his slippers to home visits (ie your floors are too dirty for my socks) and lies effortlessly even when confronted cold hard evidence. He doorsteps people on a regular basis and yet for all this, can't understand why people don't want him to visit?! As a group we have tried on many different occasions to open lines of communication with Surrey EHE dept. At a meeting in 07 they made various promises as the line mgr at the time was very pro HE, however since then nothing has changed and the only reason we were "allowed" to see the draft policy was because someone FOI'd it. At one of the meetings we were told we weren't allowed to see it until it had been passed by a committee despite the dept agreeing the year before to consult with local HE'er on it. Although Surrey aren't one of the worst LA's out there, they are one of the most devious and deceitful. |
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| Date submitted: | Fri 5th March 2010 |
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| The remaining advisors at the moment are Andrea Cunningham and Fred Mowbray. I have not met either of them as we have never had visits, but both have shaky reputations (i.e. horror stories abound), particularly Fred Mowbray. | |
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