We focus on ensuring our growing and diverse communities are inclusive, connected and have a sense of belonging. We’re doing this by promoting cross-cultural education, providing welcoming spaces and delivering services and programs for those who may be vulnerable to exclusion.
We ensure our communities are healthy and safe by supporting mental health, reducing social isolation and reducing crime. Through increased engagement and education, we can further build on the current connections ensuring a safe and healthy community.
Social Strategy
The Social Strategy sets out the guiding principles and focus areas needed to deliver the social objectives in our Strategic Community Plan. We want our community to be healthy and safe, growing and diverse, engaged and participating, and celebrated and vibrant.
Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)
The RAP confirms our ongoing commitment to working collaboratively with our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. It outlines our vision for reconciliation and details 17 key actions designed to help our community understand our vision.
Access and Inclusion Plan (AIP)
The AIP was developed to provide for universal access and to better support community members and groups, particularly people with disability, seniors and older people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities (CaLD), people who identify as LGBTQIA+ as well as children and young people.
Community Health and Wellbeing Plan
Outlines actions under the three core themes: healthy community, life factors and prevention and protection. We will implement to drive improvement in community health and wellbeing.
Community Safety Plan
The Community Safety Plan focusses on the City and its partners identifying coordination efforts to build a strong sense of community safety and wellbeing through six key focus areas which will guide City actions and funding priorities for the duration of the plan. The plan aims to builds on the existing achievements of the City in relation to community safety and the identified key focus areas will be tasked through an internal implementation plan.
Note:
- Youth Plan is currently under review, with adoption anticipated for 2025
- RAP is due for review and update in 2024/25
- Arts and Culture Plan is currently under development.