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.
If you need more information you can:
Call and speak to someone on: 8601 5281
Email: contact@ccyp.vic.gov.au