The move will be announced tomorrow (Thursday 10 January) as part of a series of recommendations in Think Family, the final report from the social exclusion taskforce's Families at Risk review.
The report looks at how adult services can better serve families in order to help improve children's life chances.
It pledges to place early intervention and prevention services within existing support networks, as well as extend tailored family services in order to reach a wider range of vulnerable families.
For example, a housing officer might identify a parent's language difficulties and refer them to English for Speakers of Other Languages training, or a local authority might inform a school of children who are entitled to free school meals to make sure all entitled children receive them.
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