A specialist taskforce is to take over the running of key services at Kensington and Chelsea Council in the wake of last month's Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid is due to announce that outside experts will be brought in to manage the council's housing, regeneration, community engagement and governance services.
The move, which follows heavy criticism of the council's response to the disaster, is due to be confirmed in a written statement to MPs.
It stops short of demands from London mayor Sadiq Khan for ministers to appoint external commissioners to take over the running of the whole council.
The new team is expected to be phased in as the current Grenfell Tower Response Team (GRT) is gradually wound down following the immediate aftermath of the fire.
Meanwhile, the majority of Grenfell Tower survivors remain in hotels three weeks after the deadly blaze as the British government attempts to find them suitable accommodation.
Just nine households hoping to be moved out of emergency accommodation have accepted offers for more permanent living arrangements, the GRT has said.
139 offers had been made following 158 housing needs assessments, on the eve of the three-week deadline the government set itself for offering housing to all of those displaced by the blaze.
GRT said every household that wanted to move from emergency accommodation had been made offers in Kensington and Chelsea or neighbouring boroughs, while 19 families were contacted and had either refused assistance or were abroad.
This was for a range of reasons, including some who were looking after relatives in hospital, and the response team was "ready to provide them with accommodation when they were ready".
Campaigners and residents claim little headway has been made, with some survivors reportedly being offered new accommodation with rent up to triple the amount they paid before.
Many are said to have been offered properties that are either out of the borough, too expensive or on a one-year contract while others had been offered places in high-rises.
Another survivor was said to have been offered permanent accommodation with the caveat that no guests could stay overnight.
GRT has said rent will be suspended for one year and thereafter will be of a "similar scale to a council house social rent", while survivors should feel under no pressure to take up the first offers.
Pilgrim Tucker, a campaigner working with Grenfell Tower families, told the Press Association: "Their concern is they are not being talked to properly, just being presented with an offer."
"People are being texted saying 'here is your offer, it is rent free for a year and then it is £400 a week' - that is triple what they are paying before."
She said the example of tripled rent had come from one specific survivor from the tower. It is not clear how many others had been offered similar deals.
Separately, families of victims of the fire have been told that their relatives may not be identified until the end of the year.
The news was broken to the families at a meeting with the coroner and the Metropolitan Police last night.
Some families were described as being upset and angry with others overwhelmed and leaving the meeting early.
Relatives had been told before the event that they would not be allowed to put questions directly to the Coroner or the Metropolitan Police Commander in attendance, but should instead email their questions in advance.
In the three weeks since fire ravaged the 24-storey apartment block, there has been anger in the community at the lack of a coordinated response by authorities to the tragedy.
At least 80 people died or are presumed missing after the block of flats caught fire early on 14 June.
Cladding from 190 high-rise buildings in England has now failed combustibility tests.
