Home for vulnerable needs to clean up its act or close, says Labor MP


A Victorian Labor MP has called for a long-standing home for some of Melbourne’s most marginalised residents to clean up its act or close as a row rages over living conditions at the facility in Melbourne’s west.

Melton MP Steve McGhie said that in his less than three years in State Parliament he had had multiple complaints about health and welfare issues at Meadowbrook, a supported residential service in Melton South.

Meadowbrook’s long-time proprietor Pradeep Divakar  stressed that Meadowbrook was visited regularly by Community Visitors – state government-authorised volunteers who routinely check such facilities – without a single serious complaint reported over seven or eight years.

Last October the state Health Department regulator carried out a detailed inspection at Meadowbrook and issued seven compliance notices for breaches of standards for supported residential services.

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