Youth Law Australia About
Youth Law Australia (YLA) is a community legal service
that is dedicated to helping children and young people
Student Opportunities
to their problems.
students only. Students must be in their penultimate
in Australia and their supporters to find a legal solution
Previously named the National Children’s and Youth Law Centre and known as Lawstuff, YLA is Australia’s
YLA offers volunteer opportunities for UNSW law or final year of their degree and commit to one day per week.
only national, technology-based community legal
Volunteers are involved in legal research for projects,
rights abuses of children and young people in Australia.
correspondence
service. They are dedicated to addressing the human YLA believe in equality and justice for all children and
young people, and work to achieve this by connecting
submissions,
and
Applicants
to help keep more children in school, out of trouble
and technology.
and free from bullying, harassment or child abuse.
What kind of work?
YLA provides specialist legal services to young people under the age of 25, including in the area of:
advice;
clients;
drafting
administrative
legal
tasks;
submission writing; and updating legal factsheets.
and empowering young Australians with free legal
information and knowledge. In other words, YLA works
to
legal
must
demonstrate
experience,
or
understanding and interest in child's rights and law
You can find more information here:
https://drive.google.com/file/ d/0Bw6SESgFLzITSHJFbkR2NU54bTg/view
- Harassment, cyberbullying and stalking
Graduate Opportunities
- Family and domestic violence
Practical Legal Training (PLT) program. You can find
- Age of consent
- Sexting and image based abuse - Drug matters
-Traffic offences - Sexual assualt
Graduates can volunteer at YLA as part of UNSW Law's more information here:
https://www.law.unsw.edu.au/study/unsw-practicallegal-training
- Education
Fun Fact / Recent Project
Type of work done by employees:
YLA monitors and advocates for the rights and
- Legal advice
- Legal referrals
- Child rights monitoring and advocacy - Research
- Law reform and policy work
- School-based legal education
Location Sydney
Child's rights monitoring
best interests of young people in Australia. YLA is a member of the Child Rights Taskforce, which is
Australia’s peak children’s rights body made up of over 100 organisations. Through their role on the
Taskforce, YLA assist in drafting and reviewing reports made to the UN on the state of children’s rights
observance in Australia. In 2017, YLA prepared the
“Children’s Rights” section of the Shadow Report for the 6th periodic report of the ICCPR.
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