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Barking & Dagenham LBC has appointed Chris Naylor to take on the top job at the council. Chief operating officer at Barnet LBC since January 2013, Mr Naylor was previously director of resources at Tower Hamlets LBC. Cutting funding for local welfare provision and effectively saying 'it's local government's problem' will drive up social costs in the longer term, writes Essex CC leader David Finch.