WLST Annual Report 2017-2018

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WLST Annual Report 2017-2018 Annual Report 2017-2018 1 Our Mission WLST empowers women to have full access to the legal system thereby encouraging women to take greater control over their lives. Our Vision Our vision is to empower women in Tasmania, particularly those who are on low incomes or are in other ways disadvantaged, through: - a just, equitable and accessible legal system, - a broad range of community services and support, and - relevant social justice and law reform to be undertaken. Our Values Our values are informed by our commitment to be professional, ethical, impartial, respectful, independent, accessible, non- aligned, non-partisan and socially inclusive. Our values are upheld by acting with integrity, innovation and intelligence. 2 with the Family Violence Action Plan 2015– About Us 2020. Our Launceston office provides legal information, advice and support on any legal Women’s Legal Service Tasmania is a matter to those clients in the north of the community legal service funded by the state who are experiencing, or who have Commonwealth Attorney-General’s experienced, family violence. Department. We operate a free and statewide service, with offices in Hobart, Women’s Legal Service Tasmania is also able Burnie and Launceston. to provide community legal education sessions and workshops throughout the From our office in Hobart we provide Tasmanian community. We produce legal confidential and free legal advice and information publications such as brochures, referral to women right across Tasmania booklets, factsheets, and websites, and through our telephone advice line. Our strive to make the legal system more highly skilled legal staff are able to provide accessible and responsive to the issues advice and referral on all legal matters, affecting women through our law reform including family law, family violence, civil work. and criminal law, as well as estate and property law. In addition to providing Women’s Legal Service Tasmania is managed telephone advice, we are at times able to and staffed by women who are sensitive to take on casework for clients throughout the diverse needs of individual women and Tasmania who need representation with groups within the Tasmanian their legal matters. community. For legal advice or assistance, you can contact us through our telephone Our Burnie office has been operational since advice line, or by calling our Burnie office April 2016 after Women’s Legal Service directly if you are in north west Tasmania, or Tasmania was chosen to open a specialist our Launceston office in the north. For all family violence unit in the north west of other information or enquiries, please call Tasmania as part of the Australian our Hobart office. Government’s response to rising family violence in our communities. Our Burnie office provides legal information, advice and support on any legal matter to those clients in the north west of the state who are experiencing, or who have experienced, family violence. This year saw the opening of a dedicated Launceston office, with funding secured from an extension to the Burnie specialist family violence unit program from the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, and through funding provided by the Tasmanian State Government through the Legal Assistance in Accordance 3 4 All calls are completely confidential. Contacting Us The 1800 line operates during specific hours: Monday – Friday (except Wednesday) Women’s Legal Service Tasmania operates 10:00am to 12:30pm and 1:30pm to 3:30pm our statewide telephone advice line from our Hobart office. Wherever you live in Wednesday 2:00pm to 4:00pm Tasmania, the first point of contact with the service is through our telephone advice line, where you will be able to speak directly with Burnie Office — Specialist Family a solicitor regarding your legal issue. Should Violence Unit you require an appointment with one of our solicitors, they will let you know how to find Our Burnie office is a specialist family us. violence unit, operating under the Australian Government’s response to rising family Administration Enquiries violence in our vulnerable communities. If you are in north west Tasmania, and are Our Hobart office can be contacted on 03 experiencing, or have experienced, family 6231 9466 for all administration and service violence, you are able to contact our Burnie provider enquiries. office directly for legal advice and information by calling 03 6419 7050, or by Telephone Legal Advice Line visiting our office at 60A Wilmot Street. Our telephone advice line is the first point of contact for all legal advice and assistance. Launceston Office — Specialist Family Violence Unit Calling our 1800 682 468 number is free from landlines and most mobiles (some Our Launceston office is a specialist family phone companies do charge for calling 1800 violence unit. If you are in the north of numbers, so please check before Tasmania and are experiencing, or have dialing). You can call the 1800 service from experienced, family violence, you can call anywhere in Tasmania, and the call will not our Launceston office directly on 03 6349 be displayed on your telephone bill. 1943, or by visiting our office at 63-65 Cameron Street. Who We Helped 5 Legal Problems The figures below show the primary legal issue that clients sought legal advice for during the 2017–2018 year. Our statistics show that 52% of women who contact our service for assistance 6 are experiencing, or have experienced, family violence; although specific advice regarding family violence may not be the reason that they make initial contact with Women’s Legal Service Tasmania. 7 Chief Executive required an overhaul. Our governance structures required a complete review and Officer’s Report in some instances, many policies and procedures had to be rewritten or amended or new ones created. Over the past year, Women’s Legal Service (WLST) has grown to the largest it has ever New reporting lines within the organisation been. We are now in three locations and needed to be decided and remembered. The employ 14 highly skilled women. This great mechanics of our internal communications news aside, this past year has probably been had to be reconsidered. The way our one of the toughest ever. It has been a sort budgets were presented needed to be of “coming of age” year with some changed. Board delegations had to be significant growing pains to be dealt with. changed or implemented. The list goes on, but you probably get the idea. With our Burnie office becoming well established, we were funded to open a full- On top of this huge change we had to try time physical location in Launceston. Of and guard the culture of WLST whilst giving course, we have been excited to open this it room to evolve. We had to work out how office and having staff on the ground full- we manage bringing three offices together time able to service the huge unmet need in so that we remained a team despite the the north and north east has been distance between some of the locations. We something we have wanted to do for many had to work out how we managed the years. increasing demand for our help, the increasing complexity of those matters, and An interstate colleague also opening a even what work we may not be able to do domestic violence unit asked how we any more. managed to open Burnie and then Launceston so quickly. “Pfft. It’s easy.” All of this in itself has made for a very big I said. “You just get an office, awesome year. Now add to that the looming review of people and some furniture for them to sit on the National Partnership Agreement and off you go! Oh.. and letterhead. Don’t regarding our future funding. forget that like I did”. Then add to that the Tasmanian Of course, it isn’t that easy. Let alone to do it Government’s review of the Legal Services twice in rapid succession whilst still juggling Sector and the Commonwealth the southern office and all the usual target Government’s review of the Domestic and reporting requirements which do not Violence Units, both of which will influence take in to account the other things you need our funding and future. Both have been time to do to. consuming and the uncertainty that comes with such a process is incredibly stressful. What many people do not see is the huge amount of work that goes on with such an No organisation really ever wants to be expansion. It isn’t as simple as “just opening going through a major internal revamp or as another office”. The entire service structure I prefer, revitalisation, when their very 8 existence is being reviewed. In reality we would have preferred to be putting all of our Vanessa fought hard for WLST and our time and energy in to direct service delivery sector and it is largely down to her that to help our clients and prove the need for Community Legal Centres in Tasmania did our existence to reviewers. It is after all why not receive the scheduled 30% cut to we do what we do. funding this year. She always gave us an ear and fair hearing, and implemented many of Despite the unfortunate timing, the internal our suggested legislative changes. She will work we started in this past year will put the be deeply missed. organisation in exceptionally good stead for assisting our clients moving forward. The I know that I work with an amazing group of organisation could not continue to grow women. From the Board to the staff and our organically and the sheer amount of time volunteers, every single one of the women and energy that management and the Board involved in this organisation is outstanding have put in to overhauling the organisation in her own right and in the contributions she has been huge.
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