Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on the draft Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan. This was the last chance to review and provide feedback on the draft Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan before it is adopted by Council later this year.

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.