Appendix 1 – Excerpt from the NPALAS – primary goals Part 2 — objective, outcomes and outputs Objective The objective of this Agreement is to achieve a national legal assistance sector that is integrated, efficient and effective, and is focused on improving access to justice for disadvantaged people and maximising service delivery within available resources. Outcomes This Agreement will facilitate achievement of the following outcomes: legal assistance services are targeted to priority clients with the greatest legal need; legal assistance service providers collaborate with each other, governments, the private legal profession and other services, to provide joined-up services to address legal and related problems; people’s legal assistance services are appropriate, proportionate and tailored to people’s legal needs and levels of capability; legal assistance services help people to identify their legal problems and facilitate the resolution of those problems in a timely manner before they escalate; and legal assistance services help empower people to understand and assert their legal rights and responsibilities and to address, or prevent, legal problems. Appendix 2 – current drivers for legal assistance sector development Over the last three years, several key reviews have provided insight into how a reformed CLC funding program could operate: the Shergold Review into community services in Victoria the review of the old National Partnership Agreement on Legal Assistance Services and the resulting (2015-2020) NPALAS the Commission of Audit review into legal assistance services funding the Productivity Commission enquiry into legal assistance services
Appendix 1 – Excerpt from the NPALAS – primary goals Part 2 — objective, outcomes and outputs Objective The objective of this Agreement is to achieve a national legal assistance sector that is integrated, efficient and effective, and is focused on improving access to justice for disadvantaged people and maximising service delivery within available resources. Outcomes This Agreement will facilitate achievement of the following outcomes: legal assistance services are targeted to priority clients with the greatest legal need; legal assistance service providers collaborate with each other, governments, the private legal profession and other services, to provide joined-up services to address people’s legal and related problems; legal assistance services are appropriate, proportionate and tailored to people’s legal needs and levels of capability; legal assistance services help people to identify their legal problems and facilitate the resolution of those problems in a timely manner before they escalate; and legal assistance services help empower people to understand and assert their legal rights and responsibilities and to address, or prevent, legal problems. Appendix 2 – current drivers for legal assistance sector development Over the last three years, several key reviews have provided insight into how a reformed CLC funding program could operate: the Shergold Review into community services in Victoria the review of the old National Partnership Agreement on Legal Assistance Services and the resulting (2015-2020) NPALAS the Commission of Audit review into legal assistance services funding the Productivity Commission enquiry into legal assistance services
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