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A successful submission by Legal Aid NSW to the Public Purposes Fund (PPF) has provided 3-years of funding to 15 of NSW's smallest CLCs. The centres, including almost all centres in rural and regional NSW, previously received either no or very small amounts of funding from the NSW Government. The funding from the PPF is for a wide variety of programs developed by the centres themselves. These include: Care and Protection Early Intervention Advocacy (Elizabeth Evatt CLC); state education discrimination matters (Disability Discrimination Legal Centre); provision of outreach to key NSW towns in the Southern Riverina (Albury-Wodonga CLS); Isolated Client Advocacy Program (Western NSW CLC); and the establishment of an outreach in the Tweed Valley (Northern Rivers CLC).