Achieving for Children (AfC) was formed in April 2014 to run children's services in the neighbouring London boroughs of Kingston and Richmond.
In September 2016 The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council confirmed that it intended to hand over responsibility for its children's services to the organisation by April 2017.
Documents outlining how that transfer will take place reveal that Achieving for Children wants to expand to a further two council areas - making a total of five - within the next five years.
"Richmond and Kingston had agreed that the Royal Borough [of Windsor and Maidenhead] could join the partnership taking a 20 per cent shareholding, on the basis that they wanted to grow the company to include five local authorities," the council report states.
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