The local Government is said to be facing the toughest time as it is made to endure the fiercest spending cuts ever seen in the past. In an attempt to save help protect front-line services have decided to merge their main services. This will help them save as much as £50m and £100m a year.

A radical plan has been declared according to which Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea councils will be made to operate with a single Chief Executive and a set of Senior Directors.

Children’s services, education and social care, as well as bin emptying and street, all will have to be taken care of, by them. This reshaping is already being worked on by the councils and some health and local authorities who are also said to be sharing services and senior staff.

While more than a dozen small district councils have already got together and are sharing a Chief Executive, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, three Labour-controlled souths London are at the initial stages of exploring extensive sharing of services.

Colin Barrow from Westminster, Stephen Greenhalgh from Hammersmith and Sir Merrick Cockrell from Kensington are said to have made a joint statement saying that to protect services “in an age of austerity we need to seriously examine new ways of working, including sharing service provision with other local authorities to deliver more for less”.