The move comes after the council issued a section 114 notice earlier this month, banning it from new spending outside of essential services as it looks to tackle a potential budget shortfall of £66m in the current financial year.
Under the spending plans for the next three years, a raft of council-wide services face cuts.
This includes reducing the council’s spending on care for unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC). The borough currently supports 249 UASC, which is four times the level it had agreed with the government under the voluntary National Transfer Scheme.
Council documents detailing cost cutting plans, to be discussed by the council’s cabinet this week, say that the “financial strain” of its UASC spending “is significant and unsustainable”.
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