Health Justice Partnerships

Our Family Safety Integrated Services team within our Family Law Practice Division operates a number of health justice partnerships. These are partnerships to integrate our legal help with health and wellbeing service providers.

Legal issues rarely occur in isolation. Domestic violence, family law matters, child protection issues, housing, fines and debts all involve legal and non-legal challenges. Health justice partnerships recognise this and ensure that those affected receive the right support at the right time. 

Our health justice partnerships include:

• mental health workers based within our services,
• social support workers based within our advice and representation services, such as our FASS and DVU services,
• lawyers providing services at the Women's and Children's Hospital and at Lyell McEwin Hospital in the northern suburbs
• lawyers working in collaboration with Women's Safety Services SA and Relationships SA for women and children.

Any advice, assistance and representation provided through these partnership services need not necessarily meet the usual means, merits and guidelines tests that apply to grants of legal aid.

Further information about our services at the Women's and Children's Hospital is available within our Domestic Violence Legal Service flyer (PDF , 922 KB).