The Duchess of Cambridge will visit a Greater Manchester primary school later this month to launch a charity partnership that seeks to reduce the impact of addiction on children and their families.

Catherine Middleton's visit to the Willows Primary School in Wythenshawe on 23 April will mark the official launch of the M-Pact Plus partnership between the Charity Award-winning Place2Be and Action on Addiction, and funding partners the Royal Foundation and Comic Relief. The Duchess was announced as patron of Action on Addiction in January.

Action on Addiction, which specialised in prevention and treatment for substance abuse, will train The Place2Be staff to deliver a programme to support victims and measure the affects of drug and alcohol abuse on children and their families.

Place2Be is a provider of school-based emotional and mental health services, working in 175 schools in the UK. It won the advice, support and advocacy category at the 2011 Charity Awards and was shortlisted in the education and training category in 2010.

At the launch event the Duchess of Cambridge will meet the charity’s staff and volunteers, as well as parents, children and staff from the school, which has been working with Place2Be since 2010.

Benita Refson OBE, chief executive of Place2Be, said: "We are delighted to announce this collaboration with Action on Addiction which will allow our two organisations to reach even more of the children and families that need our help and to provide them with expert support, ensuring that they face better prospects and brighter futures.

"We are tremendously grateful that HRH the Duchess of Cambridge is supporting this project and attending its launch at one of Place2Be's primary schools in Manchester."

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