Speaking at the Youth Achievement Awards & Young Volunteers conference, Richard Harries, the head of the Home Office's Volunteering and Charitable Giving Unit, described the award as "the beating heart" of the strategy.
He said the award, developed by non-formal education network UK Youth, would help meet the Government's aim of using volunteering to help young people's development and its efforts to get the public and private sector involved.
The award has already been endorsed by the Russell Commission, the group that devised the volunteering strategy, but until now the Government had not given its support publicly.
Harries said the Home Office viewed the award as "flexible and valuable".
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