Community Safety Plan - Give Us Your Thoughts!

The term “Community Safety” covers a wide range of issues beyond the prevention of injury and crime in the Yarra Ranges. And it was this kind of thinking that led to the development of a Community Safety Plan – a strategy that we want your input on!

Council’s Community Safety team paired up with a number of local health, emergency and social services providers to identify the most pressing Community Safety issues in our region, and formed a Community Safety Steering Committee to come up with some ideas on how to address these. The group’s findings are detailed in the Community Safety Plan.

The six Priority Areas that the plan focuses on are:

·        Alcohol

·        Emergencies

·        Falls

·        Family Violence

·        Roads

·        Suicide

The draft Plan was recently released, and will be available for comment until Monday 2 September. Community Safety affects all Yarra Ranges residents, and we’d encourage you to take a look at the documents and have your say.

 View the Community Safety Plan here