A "recovery plan" put forward this week by Northamptonshire County Council includes proposals to make "radical service reductions and efficiencies" across the authority to "significantly reduce spending".
The council says it needs to make £60-70m of savings in 2018/19.
Service areas under review include children's services, which was rated "requires improvement" by Ofsted in April 2016, and which is expected to be transferred to an independent trust called Children First by April 2019.
Children's social care spending will be particularly scrutinised, with the plan stating that "factors for high spending on high numbers of referrals and high numbers in the care system" will be assessed.
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