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About CLCs

About CLCs

Community legal centres, or CLCs, are independent community organisations that provide free legal services to those who need it. CLCs enable a strong collective voice for justice and equality. Find out more.

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Community legal centres across Victoria provide free legal advice to people experiencing disadvantage. Find a community legal centre.

Policy Submissions and Reports

Policy Submissions and Reports

On this page, you can find recent and past submissions, reports and statements from the Federation of Community Legal Centres. Learn more.

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Resources

Learn more about our Integrated Practice Toolkit and other resources.

About Us

The Federation leads and supports excellence in the community legal sector, promotes the purpose and value of community legal centres, and advances social justice and a fair legal system.

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‘Youth crime is falling across the board’ – Senate committee calls for national taskforce and minimum standards in youth justice

A cross-party Senate committee has today found no evidence of a youth crime crisis that has been used to justify a decade of harsher laws, while calling for national minimum standards and a national taskforce to prevent the ongoing harm to children in detention.

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Family violence reforms deliver progress and new risks for victim-survivors

The Victorian Government's latest family violence reforms include some important and long-overdue changes, but several measures risk making things harder for victim-survivors.

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Time for Victoria to finally end the criminalisation of begging

The community legal sector strongly supports moves to decriminalise begging, bringing Victoria into line with all other states and territories - including New South Wales, which removed the offence from their criminal law in 1979.

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There are community legal centres across Victoria. Click to find your nearest Victorian community legal centre.

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Federation of Community
Legal Centres (Vic) Inc.
Level 3, 225 Bourke Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia.

Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic) Inc.
Level 3, 225 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia.

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we operate, the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung and Bunurong Peoples of the Kulin Nation. We extend this acknowledgement to all First Nations’ Peoples and pay our respects to their Elders past and present and acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. 

Phone: (03) 9652 1501

Email: [email protected]

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