How these services are funded
Our Department allocates Tasmanian and Australian Government funding for the delivery of legal assistance services, and makes sure this funding is used efficiently.
Australian Government funding
National Legal Assistance Partnership 2020-2025
Commonwealth government funding for legal assistance services is allocated to legal aid commissions, community legal centres and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services under the National Legal Assistance Partnership 2020-2025 (NLAP). The NLAP:
- is an agreement between the Commonwealth and States and Territories about how legal assistance services are delivered to help vulnerable people facing disadvantage
- focuses on those people who are unable to afford private legal services, helping them to engage effectively with the justice system to address their legal problems.
We administer this funding to the legal assistance sector through program funding deeds with legal assistance providers, as required by the NLAP.
See more information on the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department website on National Legal Assistance Partnership Agreement and the National Legal Assistance Partnership 2020-25.
Tasmanian Government Funding
Continuation of funding for legal assistance
The Tasmanian Government provides funding for legal assistance services to make sure Tasmania’s most vulnerable people have access to justice through legal assistance, to help them sort out their legal issues. The Department of Justice administers this funding to legal assistance services. This funding will continue for each year of the National Legal Assistance Partnership 2020-2025 (NLAP) (explained above).
Survivors at the Centre: Tasmania’ Third Family and Sexual Violence Action Plan 2022-2027
Survivors at the Centre: Tasmania’s third Family and Sexual Violence Action Plan is the Tasmanian Government’s co-ordinated whole of government action plan to respond to family and sexual violence.
Women’s Legal Service Tasmania receives funding under the action plan to deliver specialist legal assistance to women in North and North Eastern Tasmania who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, family violence.
Go to the Department of Premier and Cabinet for more information on the action plan.