Wandsworth LBC has asked its employees to devise plans to share services with other boroughs or create staff-led mutuals to run local services in a bid to make further £20m budget cuts by 2015.

As part of an organisational restructure that will see the number of departments cut from six to four, with a proportionate cut in senior managers, Wandsworth's workers have been invited to take over the direct running of their services in the form of employee-led staff mutuals or social enterprises. Recently the running of Wandsworth's library services was taken over by a social enterprise formed by staff from Greenwich RLBC.