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Community legal centres

Community legal centres (CLCs) offer important community-based services, including free legal advice and assistance and advocacy, community legal education activities, and law reform activities. They are part of the network of 52 CLCs across Victoria.

There are generalist and specialist legal centres. Generalist centres will normally only service clients living, working or studying in their surrounding area. Specialist centres focus on particular:

  • groups with specific needs, including women, Indigenous people, or young people
  • areas of law, including disability, mental health, employment, social security, consumer, and tenancy.

VLA supports the CLCs through the Community Legal Centre Funding Program. Through this program we administer Commonwealth, state and our own funding to 39 Victorian community legal centres and the Secretariat of the Federation of Community Legal Centres.

More information

Community Law – Federation of Community Legal Centres website (new window)