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Building the evidence base for your Health and Wellbeing Plan
A practical session for council teams writing or reviewing a Health and Wellbeing Plan. We’ll show you where to find the evidence you need, drawing on both demographic and community sentiment data, and how to read it.
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Reserve your place for Monday 15 June 2026, 2:00–3:00pm AEST (1:30pm ACST · 12:00pm AWST).
Every Health and Wellbeing Plan needs an evidence base. The hard part is usually knowing where that evidence lives and how to pull it together.
This session is a practical walk-through. Demographer Glenn Capuano and social researcher Daniel Evans will use a single council as a worked example to show you where the health and wellbeing data sits, across Community Profile for the demographic picture and Community Views for the resident sentiment.
No specialist data skills required. You’ll come away knowing where to look and how to read what you find, so you can get the data you need to contribute to your council’s Health and Wellbeing Plan with confidence.
Bring your questions: submit them when you register and put them directly to Glenn and Dan in the live Q&A.
All registrants receive the recording and slides after the session.
PRESENTED BY
Glenn Capuano
Demographer
Daniel Evans
Social Researcher
Preview
What we'll cover in this session
Why Health and Wellbeing Plan evidence matters
What a strong evidence base does for a Health and Wellbeing Plan: what it needs to show, and how it supports the priorities your plan puts forward. Dan opens the session with the standard to aim for.
The demographic picture, with Community Profile
Learn what demographic data reveals about your community: how it’s ageing and changing, where disadvantage sits, and how to find the groups and pockets of need within your council area.
The resident voice, with Community Views
Hear what residents say about their own health, wellbeing and quality of life: how your community rates itself against others, the issues people are most concerned about, and how that picture changes over time.
Putting it together
See both tools applied to the same council, side by side: a single worked example of how the demographic picture and the resident voice combine into one evidence base.
Q&A with Glenn and Dan
Put your questions directly to a demographer and a social researcher. Submit yours when you register and we’ll answer as many as we can live.
Prepared for local government
If you’re a community wellbeing officer, social planner or part of a corporate planning team responsible for writing or reviewing a Health and Wellbeing Plan, this session is will show you how to prepare a clear evidence base for your plan without support from consultants or analysts.
The session draws on two tools that together form part of the evidence base for local government provided by Informed Decisions.
Community Profile is Australia’s most widely used online demographic tool, trusted by more than 300 councils. Drawing on ABS and Census data, it tells you who lives in your community, how it’s changing, how it compares to other areas and what that means for the years ahead, down to suburb level. For a Health and Wellbeing Plan, that includes the topics that matter most: long-term health conditions and the need for assistance with daily activities.
Community Views is a survey-based service that captures a representative, insightful picture of your community’s values, experiences and priorities. Health and wellbeing is one of its core topics: community attitudes towards health, the lived experiences that drive more positive health outcomes, and how residents rate their own physical and mental health, social connection and quality of life.