NACLC

The National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC) is the peak national body for Community Legal Centres (CLCs) in Australia; NACLC's members are the state and territory peak bodies of Community Legal Centres. NACLC’s members are:

Together, these organisations represent around 200 Community Legal Centres in metropolitan, regional, rural and remote locations across Australia. Some Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Legal Services choose to join state and territory CLC associations and also come under the NACLC umbrella.

NACLC’s role is to ensure the community legal sector continues to thrive and is able to meet the needs of communities around Australia.

Our Purpose

Ensuring a Thriving Community Legal Sector

Our Values

Member Focus

We assist and enhance the capacity of our Members and individual community legal centres, and support their independence and autonomy

Leadership

We work with our Members to lead a strong, independent and innovative community legal sector

Fairness

We believe in equity, social justice and human rights and work towards alleviating systemic disadvantage

Collaboration

We build quality relationships to leverage combined resources, expertise and knowledge for the benefit of the organisations and communities that we collectively serve

Quality

We strive to develop and support high standards and quality in our own work and across the sector

 

Our Key Areas of Work

  • We are a strong voice to, and for, the community legal sector
  • We increase the resources available to the community legal sector
  • We strengthen our communities through enhanced collaboration
  • We facilitate the provision of high quality community legal services