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
Project timeline
Timeline
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.