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The new funding environment for community legal centres

Learn about the latest funding changes and priorities for community legal centers in Queensland. Detailed discussions include collaboration strategies, priority services, and allocation of additional funding.

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The new funding environment for community legal centres

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  1. The new funding environment for community legal centres Community Legal Centres Queensland Conference Monday 8 May 2017

  2. 3 year agreements Committee to brief AG More collaboration/planning (inc enhanced role for QLAF) Clear(er) criteria for projects LPITAF sustainability

  3. Duty lawyer services • Domestic violence • Child protection • Mental Health • Family Advocacy and Support Service

  4. Total federal funding (Queensland CLCs) ‘Dreyfus funding’ Extra NPA funding Women’s Safety Package

  5. “Additional temporary CLC funding” • Geographic region • “hotspot regions” with: • a lower proportion of services, relative to others • a high number of people likely to need legal assistance (Greater Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns) • accessible in rural, regional and remote areas • Area of law • family, domestic and family violence and child protection law • employment law • (Priority) Client groups • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people • people with mental health issues, intellectual disability and/or cognitive impairment

  6. “Additional temporary CLC funding” • Prisoners Legal Service • Assistance for Indigenous prisoners to apply for parole • ADA Australia (QADA) • guardianship advocacy services (Brisbane and Townsville) • QPILCH (LawRight) • Expand Cairns HPLC • LegalPod • Additional self-rep services (child protection, employment & guardianship) • ATSIWLS NQ • Additional family, DV, child protection (inc new service on Palm Island) for Indigenous women • Cairns CLC • family, domestic violence and child protection services • Caxton • Employment law • Child protection law services • Gold Coast • Family, domestic violence and child protection services

  7. Amanda Shipway Acting Director, Legal Assistance Strategy & Funding Department of Justice & Attorney-General amanda.shipway@justice.qld.gov.au

  8. Funding restored! You’re welcome!

  9. Thank you A win that’s not really a win?

  10. Last year Queensland’scommunity legal centres helped 57,141clients with individual legal help

  11. Last year Queensland’scommunity legal centresturned away 57,969people who asked for our help, because we didn’t have the resources

  12. What does this mean inQUEENSLAND? Funding provided through NPA Focus on women, family law& domestic violence Amount unknown

  13. Allocation of funding • Reinstate ‘core’ funding that was cut Questions to consider: • Which of these should CLCQ prioritise in its advocacy? • What other funding priorities should we adopt? • Continue funding for one-off projects • Focus on DV & Family law • New round of tenders • New priority services eg Mental Health Law, Youth, DV, child protection, NDIS, etc CLC Management Committee to determine priorities this week (if possible) to feed into Government planning • Support currently unfunded CLCs • ‘Bring up the base’

  14. Tonight • Dinner at 6.30 (arrive from 6pm) • Surfer’s Paradise SLSC • Social Media: Friends of CLCs • 9:15am start tomorrow

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