Mark your calendar for CLCNSW’s upcoming training and events. We have a dynamic program of training sessions, events and professional development opportunities designed to connect and strengthen our sector.
Upcoming training and events
October Sector Session: Ethics and Multi-Disciplinary Practices Panel
Learn about the central ethical considerations of providing non-legal services in a community legal centre and fulfil your ethics CPD requirement at our October Sector Session: Ethics and Multi-Disciplinary Practices. This event will be in form of an expert panel.
Many CLCs are not just legal centres. Your organisations often holistically assist your community via a range of legal and non-legal services.
Being a Multi-Disciplinary Practice can present ethical challenges for the legal side of your CLC. Maintaining information barriers and the balance of mandatory reporting and legal privilege are key concerns that our expert panellists will discuss throughout this session.
Panellists:
- Colette Bots - Legal Practice Director, Caxton Legal Centre
- Judy Harper - JAS Program Director, Intellectual Disability Rights Centre
- Mark Holden - Acting Director, Financial Rights Legal Centre
This one-hour session is eligible for one ethics and professional responsibility CPD point.
When: Tuesday 6 October 2026, 1pm - 2pm
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams
Registration: Register for the October session here.
Victims Services Community Training Workshops
The Victims Services Community Worker Training Program equips social workers, health workers and support workers with the knowledge and resources to complete victims' financial support forms accurately and to provide appropriate supporting evidence to community legal centres making applications.
The training provides guidance for making eligible applications and understanding the nuances of the application process, plus tips for avoiding common mistakes. It aims to ensure that more victim-survivors receive the financial support they are entitled to under the Victims Rights and Support Act.
When: Multiple dates
Where: Across NSW
Registration: See all dates in the program and register here.
Get involved: If your community legal centre would like to host a workshop in partnership with CLCNSW, please fill in this form.
For more training and events updates:
We share all training via our fortnightly newsletter Off the Record, which community legal centre workers can sign up for here.
Or check out our YouTube playlist of our past recorded training.
What training would you like to see next?
Got ideas for training, skills development or legal education sessions? Let us know what you’d like CLCNSW to offer the NSW community legal sector next.
Quarterly network meetings
We also have 21 sector networks that cover a range of topics and meet quarterly in February, May, September and November each year. Join a network to share knowledge and experiences, provide peer support in complex areas, hear from guest presenters, coordinate advocacy, and develop joint strategies for improving clients' experiences of the justice system. Find the network meeting schedule here.
Contact us
For further information about our training and events, please contact us at clcnsw@clcnsw.org.au.