The application will be discussed by the council on Tuesday.

Wirral Council could find itself effectively bankrupt if the government does not grant it a £40m bailout.The North East mayor has outlined plans to tackle child poverty, saying "enough is enough".

Kim McGuinness announced she would channel funding into after-school clubs, employment support and discounting transport fares.Speaking at the region's first Child Poverty Summit, McGuinness said a £50m package of government funding would be used to match people with jobs who face barriers due to health and disability.Meanwhile, the Labour-elected mayor extended the £1 fare cap for people aged 21 and under on buses, the Metro and Shields Ferry, to next year and said she hoped to keep it in place until 2028.

"The North East has had the unwelcome tag of the highest child poverty rates for the past 25 years," she told the summit at the Beacon of Light in Sunderland."Now we say, 'enough is enough'."

The government said local action was "exactly what we need to drive up employment and drive down poverty".

The mayor represents two million people living in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham.There are nine councils in total - not including town and parish councils - each with a chief executive and a headquarters.

It's also particularly problematic for the city council, because it has a small boundary, mostly covering low-income areas, with 80% of properties in council tax bands A or B.Meanwhile, much of the city's more affluent suburbs aren't actually in the city's administrative area.

People living in those suburbs might go into the city and use city services, but they don't contribute to the city pot through council tax.At this point, it seems like this system's days are numbered.