| Welfare Rights Outreach Project 
Background to the Welfare Rights Outreach Project Following a scoping study by the National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC), the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department funded the secondment of two welfare rights solicitors to NAAJA and two welfare rights solicitors to the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (CAALAS).
This funding was in recognition of the enormous unmet legal needs which existed with respect to welfare rights in remote communities and town camps across the Northern Territory arising out of the changes to welfare payments, including Income Management.
Currently this project is only funded to 30 June 2009, although we have applied for additional funding to continue the project. This funding will be extremely important given the School Enrolment and Attendance Measure being trialed in the Northern Territory, the changes to the compliance regime and the general lack of understanding many Aboriginal people currently have about welfare rights.
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