Plans for Scotland's second largest local authority to save £148m by 2020 will come under scrutiny this week.

Edinburgh City Council has already pledged to make just under two-thirds of the savings in 2016-17.

Last month, the local authority approved £85m of cuts for the upcoming financial year as part of its overall aim to shave £148m from its budget.

Members of the city’s corporate policy and strategy committee will meet on Tuesday to discuss the wider business plan for the 2016-2020 period, which has already been approved.

Around 700 staff have already agreed to leave and council leaders have said they hope to cut a total of 2000 jobs without resorting to compulsory redundancies.

Along with reducing the workforce to 16,000, the council will sell off property and reduce its fleet of vehicles. Among the proposals are saving £147,000 by increasing charges for council-run care homes and cutting a £250,000 by reviewing library opening hours.

The city council hopes to save £1m by making reductions to grant and contract funding for third parties within its communities and families services.

It will save £900,000 in its bid to merge the Gorgie Mills and Panmure St Ann's special schools in the city and "reviewing" funding of the city’s winter festivals is estimated to save £500,000.

Cuts to grass-cutting maintenance across the council will save £200,000, while increasing pay and display parking charges is expected to save £1m, according to the savings plan.

Decisions that will be implemented for the 2016-2017 year include the hikes in parking charges, cuts in grants to public sports body Edinburgh Leisure and the reduction in opening hours at city-run museums and galleries.

Proposals to reduce street crossing patrols, home care services and community centre staff were dropped following a public consultation.

Council leader Andrew Burns previously said the local authority was facing a "double-whammy" of an increasing population and the "undeniable fact that our revenue-funding is now declining".