Language Boxes Grid
Arabic
Greek
Spanish
Croatian
Italian
Japanese
Oromo
Somali
Serbian
Thai
Tigrinya
Turkish
Vietnamese
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
English

Yarra City Council reaffirms its commitment to public health and community wellbeing

At the Council Meeting on Tuesday 14 October, Council endorsed their 4-year Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, a document shaped by evidence and our community’s priorities. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback.

You can read the Agenda and Minutes for the Council Meeting using this link

This document outlines how we support our community through programs, services, infrastructure and facilities to ensure Yarra is a place that encourages health and wellbeing for everyone.

To learn more about how the Plan and the ways your feedback helped inform its development, click the link below.


Project background

Yarra’s Public Health and Wellbeing Plan guides Council’s work in supporting, improving and promoting our community’s health and wellbeing over a four-year period. It outlines how we support our community through programs, services, infrastructure and facilities to ensure Yarra is a place that encourages health and wellbeing for everyone.

Developing the draft Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan

The draft Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan for 2025–2029 is informed by the best available evidence on the health and wellbeing of our local community. This is compiled in the recently published Yarra Health and Wellbeing Profile, available as an Executive Summary and as a series of 10 health and wellbeing snapshots.

We’ve also aligned the draft Plan with the requirements of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, and the relevant priorities of the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2023–27.

Priority areas within the new draft Plan have also been informed by the feedback and ideas shared with us via extensive community engagement conducted for our 2025–29 Council Plan. This included engaging with a Community Working Group through a deliberative engagement process. You can read more about this process here.

We also convened two workshops with our Health and Wellbeing Expert Reference Group, which included 20 stakeholders from Yarra’s local health and social support organisations.

The proposed seven priority areas that are included in the draft Plan are:

Each of these priority areas has a set of strategies and initiatives to improve health and wellbeing across our city. You can learn more about how we determined the priority areas here.

Read the draft Plan

The draft Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan will be available for feedback from Friday 11 July until 9am Monday 11 August 2025.

Health and wellbeing snapshots

Learn more about the health and wellbeing profile of Yarra. Click on a snapshot to view it in full screen.

Project timeline

Timeline

  • Timeline item 1 - complete

    Stage 1 - Broad community engagement

    Monday 28 October to Monday 16 December 2024

    Seeking community feedback on your priorities and needs.

  • Timeline item 2 - complete

    Stage 2 - Deliberative engagement

    January and February 2025

    Community working group coming together over 4 workshops as part of our deliberative engagement process.

  • Timeline item 3 - complete

    Stage 3 - Exhibition of draft document

    Friday 11 July to 9am Monday 11 August 2025

    This is the last chance to review and provide feedback on the Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan before it is adopted by Council later this year.

  • Timeline item 4 - complete

    Review community feedback

    August to September 2025

    Council will consider all feedback received through this consultation and finalise the draft Plan, ready to be considered for adoption.

  • Timeline item 5 - active

    Endorsement of Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan

    October 2025

    The revised Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan

    is being considered for endorsement at the next Council Meeting on Tuesday 14 October 2025.