Liverpool City Council wants to invest £7.7m in hiring an additional 160 social care staff.
The aim is to reduce caseloads, which were criticised by Ofsted, and improve its early help services over the next two years.
The decision, expected to be rubber-stamped at a council meeting this week, will pull in £5.1m of the local authority's "additional social care funding" for adults and children.
The government wrote to all local authorities in December with details of their share of a £410m top-up for 2019/20 announced in the October Budget.
The money is not ringfenced and councils can choose to improve their social care offer for older people and people with disabilities, as well as children.
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