The plan, announced in last week's Budget, will help parents make sense of the complicated tax credit system. Many benefits currently go unclaimed by parents who are baffled by bureaucracy.
Advisers will be based initially at 30 children's centres in 10 local authorities and, if successful, the programme could be introduced elsewhere.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said it would be asking for applications from interested councils in the next few months. "There are problems with the take-up of benefits which contribute to child poverty," she said.
Other measures in the Budget included cash incentives for couples with children to go back to work, grants to encourage local authorities to reduce child poverty and a project to improve supported housing for teenage mothers.
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