What you need to know
We are responsible for providing a range of community services for residents and businesses within Moonee Valley. These include areas of childcare, aged and disability, libraries, animal registration, planning, street cleaning, parking management, citizenship ceremonies, garbage collection and recycling.
Our organisation
We are a local government within the north-west metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, established in 1994 as after a merger between the City of Essendon and City of Keilor.
We provide services for the following suburbs:
- Aberfeldie
- Airport West
- Avondale Heights
- Ascot Vale
- Essendon
- Essendon Fields
- Essendon North
- Essendon West
- Flemington
- Keilor East
- Moonee Ponds
- Niddrie
- Strathmore
- Strathmore Heights
- Travancore
Our service and responsibilities
We also look after community buildings, footpaths and roads, parks and gardens, bridges, drains and street furniture, environmental areas, recreation centres and sporting grounds.
The Local Government Act 1989 requires us to make particular documents available for public inspection.
For more details on how we have performed over the past 12 months, view our Annual Report.
We are a child safe organisation
Statement of commitment:
Moonee Valley City Council is committed to protecting children and young people from the risk of harm or abuse when they interact with us in person, online, visit our facilities, use our services and/or attend our events.
We have a zero-tolerance to child abuse.
Our Executive Team will advocate for child safety and through leadership and governance we aim to embed a culture of child safety into our everyday practices.
We are committed to mitigating potential harm and will continue to monitor, review and improve our processes.
We have systems in place to report and investigate suspected incidents.
Council is committed to creating a culturally safe and inclusive environment for children who are Aboriginal, culturally and/or linguistically diverse, children with a disability and who are same sex attracted or gender diverse.
We encourage the participation of children, young people and their families in decisions affecting them and will promote child safety to our community.
Council will ensure that employees, and those we engage, understand their responsibilities for child safety and will provide training and education to embed this in practice.
Child safety is everyone’s responsibility and we aim to create an environment where children and young people feel safe, happy and empowered.
Moonee Valley City Council (Council) is a committed Child Safe organisation. We aim to embed a culture of child safety into our practices and processes. Council embraces diversity and inclusion. Every child and young person accessing a Council service has the right to feel safe and supported. All children and young people have rights to protection from abuse.
Our Child Safe Code of Conduct applies to Council’s employees, volunteers and anyone that we employ or engage including contractors, labour hire and placement students. Everyone must uphold appropriate behaviours demonstrating a zero-tolerance towards child abuse. When we interact with children and young people as part of our work function or activity, we will:
- listen and value children and young people's views and ideas
- create safe environments, including online, for children and young people participating in our services, programs, activities and events
- promote a culture of safety, participation and empowerment of Aboriginal children, culturally or linguistically diverse children and children with a disability and LGBTIQA+ children and young people
- be inclusive and treat and value children, young people and their families with respect
- listen and respond to the views and concerns of children, especially in relation to abuse, including abuse caused by anyone who this Code of Conduct applies to, or anyone else working or volunteering with or for Council
- report any concern, allegation, disclosure or observation of child abuse in line with reporting requirements.
We have procedures and processes in place to keep children and young people safe. The Child Safe Standards have informed our practices which guide our ongoing work. The Commission for Children and Young People oversees implementation of and compliance with the Child Safe Standards.
Everyone that Council employs and engages has a responsibility to understand and enact their role in preventing, detecting, responding to and reporting any suspicions of child abuse to the relevant authorities.
Child safety is everyone’s responsibility.
If a child is in immediate danger contact the Police by dialling 000 (triple zero)
For immediate concerns and to report abuse contact Child Protection by dialling 1300 644 977 or 13 12 78 (after hours)
If you have concerns about the behaviour of a Moonee Valley City Council employee, volunteer or contractor, you may make a report by email: childsafe@mvcc.vic.gov.au
For further child safety information, you can contact the Commission for Children and Young People.
Council are committed to a coordinated and collaborative approach to risk management with children and families. Where necessary, Council will share information with other authorised organisations under the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme to assess and manage the risk of family violence. Council’s information sharing entities will also share information to promote children’s wellbeing and safety in accordance with the Child Information Sharing Scheme.
If you are an information sharing entity and wish to make a request for information from City of Moonee Valley Council, please complete the Family Violence and Child Information Sharing request form and return to FCSinformationsharing@mvcc.vic.gov.au
The National Redress Scheme provides support to people who experienced institutional child sexual abuse.
Council has resolved to not provide grants or funding, hire facilities or grant community events permits to any institution that declines to comply with joining the National Redress Scheme if they are named in an application for redress.
For further information on the scheme and for information about how to apply for the Scheme visit the National Redress Scheme website.
If you need more information you can:
Call and speak to someone on: 8601 5281
Email: contact@ccyp.vic.gov.au