According to a council report, the savings will "offset" government cuts and increasing demand for services.
The council’s area-based grant (ABG) from the Department for Education has already been reduced by £4.9m this year, and local officials are predicting that further cuts to grants will leave children’s services almost £16m out of pocket next year.
Increasing numbers of looked-after children and demand for home-to-school transport are also expected to cost the council an extra £3m.
The restructure will see 46 senior management posts scrapped, which equates to 22 per cent of the total management posts in the department.
The other posts to be abolished represent five per cent of the remaining children’s services workforce.
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