A £7m overspend forecast at Somerset County Council for 2014/15 could be filled with £2m of town hall reserves.
A budget monitoring report put before councillors yesterday projected key services in the county could run an overspend of £10.488m, with £3.4m in adult and health operations and £3.2m in learning disability operations.
Somerset has affirmed that the council's current position remains 'similar' to that of previous years and predicts financial management will result in 'no overall significant overspend' by March.
A £2.722m overspend forecast in children and families operations followed spending of £260,000 on improved staff training in light of Ofsted recommendations.
Pressures within the adult social care budget were blamed on an underlying shortfall in the home care budget and increased legal costs.
A spokesperson for Somerset County Council said: 'The figures in the Somerset County Council Quarter one budget monitoring report are a financial forecast made part way through our financial year.
'They are a financial check or "heads up" on our current situation to assess the risks we face and make adjustments over the next six months before we reach the end of the financial year in March.
'The current position is similar to that in previous years at this point in the year, but we expect the overspends forecast to be managed so that there is no overall significant overspend by year end.'
