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

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

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

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

6. “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

7. “Additional temporary CLC funding”
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
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)

9. Amanda Shipway Acting Director, Legal Assistance Strategy & Funding
Department of Justice & Attorney-General

12. Funding restored!
You’re welcome!

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

14. 57,141 clients with individual legal help
Last year Queensland’s community legal centres helped
57,141 clients with individual legal help

15. Last year Queensland’s community legal centres turned away
57,969 people who asked for our help, because we didn’t have the resources

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

17. Allocation of funding
Questions to consider:
Which of these should CLCQ prioritise in its advocacy?
What other funding priorities should we adopt?
Reinstate ‘core’ funding that was cut
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’

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