Our free Community Legal Education (CLE) webinar series is designed for community workers supporting women and children impacted by domestic and family violence or navigating the Family Law system.
Each session is offered free of charge and provides practical, accessible legal information and tools to support safe practice, effective advocacy, and informed decision-making.
Each month, Women’s Legal Service Queensland focuses on a new Community Legal Education theme. Explore the upcoming webinars for this month to learn more about the sessions on offer and register to attend.
Thursday 9 July 2026, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Counselling Notes Protect is a statewide service delivered by Women’s Legal Service Queensland and Legal Aid Queensland, providing free legal advice and representation to victim‑survivors of sexual assault offences seeking to protect their counselling records.
This webinar will introduce the service and unpack key legal concepts, including who is a “counselled person” and “counsellor,” what constitutes “counselling,” and the legal protections that apply to counselling records.
Who should attend:
This session is tailored for service providers across a range of sectors, including social services, healthcare, and community support. It’s suitable for practitioners, support workers, coordinators, and anyone working directly with individuals who are affected by or experiencing domestic and family violence.
Tuesday 14 July 2026, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
This legal education webinar provides an overview of the child protection framework under the Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld).
Participants will be guided through key aspects of the legislation and how child protection matters are understood and progressed within the legal system.
Topics include:
Who should attend:
This session is tailored for service providers across a range of sectors, including social services, healthcare, and community support. It’s suitable for practitioners, support workers, coordinators, and anyone working directly with individuals who are affected by or experiencing domestic and family violence.
Thursday 23 July, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
When parents separate, decisions about children and parenting arrangements can often be complex. This session will equip professionals with an understanding of types of parenting agreements (formal and informal), and court processes in family law parenting matters.
Topics include:
Who should attend:
This session is tailored for service providers across a range of sectors, including social services, healthcare, and community support. It’s suitable for practitioners, support workers, coordinators, and anyone working directly with individuals who are affected by or experiencing domestic and family violence.
WLSQ delivers community legal education (CLE) for service providers, volunteers, the community and women across Queensland, including in rural, regional and remote areas of the state.
WLSQ presents specialised CLE sessions in the following areas:
If you are interested in WLSQ presenting a CLE to your organisation or workplace, please complete the CLE request form.
Please note that WLSQ may charge a fee for providing this training.
For further information, please contact the WLSQ Community Legal Education Officer:
Email cle@wlsq.org.au
Phone (07) 3392 0644
Complete the interactive online request form.
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