The National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC) is the association of state community legal centre organisations in Australia. Its members are:
- Australian Capital Territory Association of Community Legal Centres (ACTACLC)
- Combined Community Legal Centres Group (New South Wales) (CCLCG)
- Northern Territory Association of Community Legal Centres (NTACLC)
- Queensland Association of Independent Legal Services (QAILS)
- South Australian Council of Community Legal Services (SACCLS)
- Tasmanian Association of Community Legal Centres (TACLC)
- Federation of Community Legal Centres (Victoria)
- Community Legal Centres Association (WA) Inc
Together, these organisations represent around 200 community legal centres nationally.
The Association is established for the public charitable purposes of assisting disadvantaged and marginalised people in the Australian community obtain access to legal services by, including but not limited to:
- supporting and assisting community legal centres to provide these services;
- providing a national forum for community legal centres;
- developing and coordinating national community legal centres policy; and
- advancing the interests of community legal centres within Australia.
Click here for copy of NACLC's Consitution.
Click here for a list of NACLC's representatives.
The Association's governing body, the Management Committee, meets throughout the year as a group of state and territory representatives and elected national representatives.
Current and Recent Activities
In recent years the NACLC has:
- provided information services to centres, including NACLC Fax, directories and a Bulletin Board Service (BBS);
- negotiated and maintained the national CLC Professional Indemnity Insurance policy;
- negotiated and maintained other insurances for member centres;
- supported the annual national CLC conference in conjunction with state/territory CLC organisations;
- fostered collaboration and sharing of resources between centres;
- developed responses to consultations and negotiated on behalf of centres in relation to administration of the CLC Funding Program nationally and implementation and use of data systems, service standards and the service agreement;
- lobbied on behalf of the sector, in the interests of centre's clients;
- researched and coordinated national policy on justice issues;
- provided support for a range of national networks of community legal centres;
- supported the development of advocacy for human rights; and
- provided advice and assistance to individual centres and state and territory organisations.
Click here for the NACLC's Annual Report 06-07
Public Officer:
Julie Whitmore
PO BOX 337, Civic Square, ACT, 2608
National Convenor:
Liz O'Brien
c/o Welfare Rights and Legal Centre
PO Box 337, Civic Square, ACT, 2608
phone: 02 6257 2931 fax: 02 6257 4801
email: liz_obrien at clc.net.au
Staff:
Executive Director: Julia Hall
email: Julia_Hall at clc.net.au
Information and Services Manager: Sarah Mitchell
email: Sarah_Mitchell at clc.net.au
Click here for a copy of NACLC's Employment Agreement.
Click here for NACLC's Publications
