FRANKSTON Council will cease offering multiple in-home support programs from next year. Council has confirmed that it will transition clients currently accessing the cut services to external providers by 30 June, 2026. Services set to be phased out by Frankston Council are personal care, domestic assistance including house cleaning and unescorted shopping, respite care, Home and Community Care Program for Younger People assessment services, meals on wheels and delivered meals for HACC-PYP clients only, home maintenance and modifications including gutter cleaning, flexible service response, and social support individual (escorted shopping). The decision was made days before the federal government’s swathe of…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
PROVINCIAL SORRENTO played Red Hill in a nailbiter on Saturday, with the Sharks winning by the finest of margins. Red Hill was sent in to bat first on their home deck. They had a few misfires with the bat, and ended up all out for 161 shortly before the scheduled close of their innings. Luke Jackson scored a vital 68 for Red Hill. He made amends for skipper Glenn Collett’s dismal for one and Simon Dart’s dismissal for a golden duck. Henry Squire, Liam O’Connor, and Tyler Porter took three wickets each for Sorrento. Sorrento’s run chase got off to…
THE Local Government Inspectorate has decided that the Local Government Act was not breached when the previous Kingston Council awarded a grant to a community group linked to a sitting councillor.A grant awarded to the Druze Community Charity of Victoria by Kingston Council prior to the 2024 local government elections has been put under the microscope this year. Cr Hadi Saab sat on the committee of the Druze group at the time the grant was approved – the two-term councillor declared a conflict of interest and recused himself before the vote took place.In March this year, Kingston Council voted to…
KINGSTON Council has slammed the planning minister’s approval of a plan to build more than 900 homes at the former Kingswood golf course in Dingley Village, calling the decision a “complete failure to listen to local residents”.Late on Friday, 17 October, planning minister Sonya Kilkenny released a statement confirming that a proposal to build 941 homes on the golf course site had been approved. Kingston Council was informed its planning authority over the site had been removed earlier this year.Kingston mayor Georgina Oxley has hit out at the state government. She said “more than 1400 residents took the time to…
FRANKSTON and Kingston Councils are expected to maintain their arrangements with their contracted animal shelter, The Lost Dogs’ Home, despite recent criticism of the organisation.The Lost Dogs’ Home, which provides animal shelter services for multiple councils including Frankston and Kingston, is under fire after it euthanised a young dog after he failed the shelter’s behavioural tests.Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell has slammed The Lost Dogs’ Home for its decision to put down 12-week-old Murphy, and expressed concern for Murphy’s sister Milly who is currently in foster care. She said in parliament earlier this month that “it is currently not…