Walsall Council said it has to reduce children's services spending by £5.8m over the next three years. It currently spends £51m a year on children's services.
Part of the plan is to pump £4m into creating a "threshold guarantee" to ensure a maximum of 15 cases per social worker, or 12 cases per newly qualified social worker.
The council's aim is to reduce the number of looked-after children by 100, from the current level of 639. The move would save an estimated £2.63m over the next three years.
"The proposed reduction in social workers' caseloads would enable them to work more intensively with children who are looked after to support maintaining them safely at home and promoting placement stability when they are looked after," the council's draft budget for 2017/18 states.
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