Peninsula Community Legal Centre (PCLC) has welcomed recent changes to Victoria’s rental laws – which include the introduction of “basic standards” and limit rent rises to once a year – as making renting fairer for everyone. PCLC has a large program to assist tenants living in private rental properties and for more than a decade […]
Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. To mark the day, the Peninsula Community Legal Centre and the Frankston Mornington Peninsula Respecting Seniors Network are launching an elder abuse awareness campaign to highlight the issue of financial elder abuse, which is an increasing problem in Australia. Close to two thirds (62%) of all elder abuse […]
Peninsula Community Legal Centre (PCLC) is launching a new special free legal service for people aged 65 and over. “Many life events associated with ageing involve legal issues” said CEO Jackie Galloway. “We are launching this new service to meet a steadily rising demand for advice on elder law problems”. Elder law focuses on protecting […]
Peninsula Community Legal Centre (PCLC) is launching a new special legal service for people aged 65 and over. The Centre will be offering a free monthly elder law service at its Rosebud office to provide advice to older people on a wide range of legal problems. The service will be launched on Friday 16 April […]
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mpnews.com.au Peninsula Community Legal Centre has received a new injection of funding to fight increased levels of family violence on the Mornington Peninsula. The UN has declared the global increase in domestic violence for women and children during 2020 as a “shadow pandemic”. “Due to the COVID pandemic, 2020 will be remembered by many of […]
Peninsula Community Legal Centre (PCLC) has released a new report which sheds light on the little known and often shocking conditions in private rooming houses across Melbourne’s southeast. Rooming house residents surveyed by PCLC’s rooming house outreach program paint a picture of woeful living conditions that would shock most Victorians, particularly given that some are […]
Peninsula Community Legal Centre is proud to launch our rooming house report – Open the Door! The Resident’s View of Life in a Rooming House The report highlights the challenges rooming house residents face being forced to live in inadequate or unsafe marginal housing such as rooming houses when unable to access affordable housing Through […]