The partnership will help up to 140,000 people: families living inpoverty, young people and those with mild learning disabilities. Themoney will be split in two to fund both national and local work.
Alice Frank, NCH's regional children's service co-ordinator for theBarclays partnership, said: "The national sum of money is going toenable NCH to research what financial work it's doing already andhighlight best practice.
Hopefully, this will enable us to produce a resource to help othersreplicate this best practice."
The rest of the money will fund financial literacy work at 18 NCH localprojects, most of which are family centres and leaving care teams. Stafffrom local Barclays branches will volunteer at the projects to providefinancial advice. An audit will take place before and after the work toassess the impact of the project.
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