The council has warned that public services funding may be at risk without urgent action from government as leaders grapple to make savings amid a national crisis in local authority funding.
The council has had to make £140mn worth of savings since 2012 despite 30,000 families in contact with the council’s children’s services department, its leaders have said.
They have written to newly elected MPs in the area, calling for them to press for urgent help from the government to sustain SEND and children’s social care services.
In particular, council leaders want the profits that private companies make on providing agency staff or on placing children in residential care to be limited.
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