The new service also involves volunteer service Home-Start and Turn2Us, which offers advice and guidance to families seeking benefits and financial support.
The Maximising Income for Families project will be piloted from now until March 2011, with funding from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Home-Start volunteers, who are all parents themselves, already offer emotional and practical support to families with at least one child under the age of five. As part of the pilot they will now be trained to give personalised financial support too.
More than a thousand volunteers will use Turn2Us's e-learning resource, while 70 will attend additional workshops as part of the pilot project.
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