The Working Families Everywhere programme forms a crucial part of Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to transform the lives of England’s 120,000 most troubled families by 2015.
Emma Harrison, its creator, has previously said she wants the "family champions" delivering the project to be a mixture of paid staff and volunteers, claiming that the programme will eventually be underpinned by thousands of volunteers.
But it has emerged that a number of local pilots have yet to decide whether they will recruit volunteers, with one – Westminster – ruling it out altogether.
The government is keen to sell the volunteering concept – a large part of the big society vision – to boost local capacity. Children’s minister Tim Loughton has already signed up to be a family champion.
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