Commonwealth Community Legal Service Program Guidelines

The Guidelines provide information to all stakeholders of the Commonwealth Community Legal Services Program (CCLSP). They set out the essential principles and obligations governing the management of the program and the delivery of services.

Stakeholders in the CCLSP include funded community legal service providers, the National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC), and State-based program managers - the legal aid commissions in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania and the Attorney-General’s Department of South Australia.

The objective of the CCLSP is to contribute to the provision of access to legal assistance services for disadvantaged members of the community and those with special needs and/or those whose interests should be protected as a matter of public interest through the provision of funding to community-based organisations.