Answers to this survey will help inform Council’s Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025-29.

The survey is designed to help us understand what is most important to our community and other key stakeholders (including health and community service organisations) in terms of health and wellbeing. We are also seeking your ideas for improving health and wellbeing in the City of Port Phillip.

A Health and Wellbeing Plan is a document that identifies the ways we will work with our community and partners to improve health and wellbeing in Port Phillip. It guides our work to create healthy communities both now, and in the years to come. In the City of Port Phillip, our Health and Wellbeing Plan is part of our Council Plan.

Councils play a central role in supporting and protecting health and wellbeing within their municipality. Our Health and Wellbeing Plan helps us to focus our efforts toward the health priority areas that are most important to our community and which can be influenced through our policies, initiatives, and services. All Victorian councils are required to develop a Health and Wellbeing Plan every four years directly following a council election, as directed under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008.

A 'health priority area' is something that impacts the health and wellbeing of the community. It can be influenced by local policies, initiatives, and services.

Examples of health priority areas include: reducing social isolation and loneliness, improving mental health and wellbeing or increasing food security and access to healthy foods.

The information you provide will help Council to consider which health priority areas to target in next Health and Wellbeing Plan. Community and stakeholder workshops and other engagement activities will occur in early 2025 to further inform the response to targeted health priority areas.

This information collectively will inform the strategic directions of the Health and Wellbeing Plan. The Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025-29 is expected to be integrated into the next Council Plan 2025-35.

The Health and Wellbeing Plan is expected to sit within the Council Plan 2025-35. More engagement on both plans will take place in early 2025.

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