Tag: Indicators of legal need

NLAS (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples)
Updated to complete the suite of NLAS indicators based on the 2021 Census, NLAS(Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples) is intended to support the planning of legal assistance services as...

Introducing NLAS(Language) – 2021 Census
This latest addition to the suite of NLAS indicators is intended to support legal assistance service providers in identifying geographic areas where there is potential demand for translator and interpreter services.

Legal Need Dashboard – Definitions & User Guide
This User Guide incudes Need for Legal Assistance Services (NLAS) indicator definitions and instructions for using the Legal Need Dashboard.

Need for Legal Assistance Services (NLAS) indicators – 2021 Census update
The Foundation’s NLAS(Capability) and NLAS(Community) indicators have been updated with the most recent (2021) Census data, with counts available at various levels of geography. These counts provide a comparative indicator...

An indicator of need for community legal centres: introducing NLAS(CLC), Justice issues paper 29
In August 2018 the NSW government announced that it was adopting an application-based funding model following the Cameron Review of community legal centres and other community-based legal assistance services. The...

Locating demand: updating the Need for Legal Assistance Services indicators: 2016 Census data, Justice issues paper 28
This paper describes the revisions to the 2015 Need for Legal Assistance Services (NLAS) indicators following the release of the 2016 Census data. The NLAS indicators were developed by the...

Need for legal assistance services: developing a measure for Australia, Justice issues paper 26
This paper describes how the Foundation developed the Need for Legal Assistance (NLAS) indicator which uses census data to assess potential demand by geographic location. It provides a count of...

Planning legal assistance services by area: is SEIFA the answer?
Results from the Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey demonstrate that certain disadvantaged groups are particularly vulnerable to legal problems. Thus, data that identify the demographic groups with high legal need and...

