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Well, put it this way: Pop banshee Celine Dion reportedly managed to scare...A NEW £1.7 million fund to provide crisis loans for people in desperate need has been set up by the city council.
Mayor George Ferguson gave the Local Crisis and Prevention Fund his seal of approval after a recommendation at a meeting of his multi-party cabinet at City Hall last night.
The fund will plug the gap left by the Department for Work and Pensions' decision to abolish part of its Social Fund later this year as the government looks to cut back its own welfare spending to reduce the deficit.
Responsibility for providing emergency loans to people with no money to pay for essentials is being passed on to councils, with Bristol's new fund now taking shape.
Those in greatest need can apply for basic household goods such as cookers and beds and emergency payments through the initiative, which uses funds from a central government grant.
The new fund will target people who are or have been homeless, people who have just left local authority care, ex-prisoners and those escaping domestic abuse.
Cabinet member Gus Hoyt (Green, Ashley) told the meeting that the project was essential as the need for crisis loans was "growing" in Bristol.
After the meeting Mr Hoyt told The Post: "The new fund is absolutely critical.
"More and more people are facing hardship, so it's vital that we provide the means that we have."
Loans from the fund are designed to identify vulnerable people, preventing what the authority described as a "small but significant number of people" from being "locked into a counterproductive and damaging cycle of increasing debt".
The council will tender the distribution of loans to applicants out to four main providers.
A pot of £1.2 million every year will be allocated to provide household goods, while £500,000 will be spent on emergency vouchers for food and bills.
In November the council advertised a £300,000-a-year contract to manage the new fund.
However, despite offering to provide the service for below the asking cost the sole bidder "did not meet the specification" and was refused.
As a result, overall management of the scheme will be carried out in-house by the council.
The DWP plans to abolish portions of the Social Fund in April. A total of £1.9 million should be handed over to the city council to pay for the grants and administrative costs.
Discussions of the new scheme followed a demonstration outside the council house about cuts.
Members of the Trade Unionists and Socialists Coalition spoke during the meeting, criticising Mr Ferguson for not protecting Bristol from national cuts.
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Governments continue to ask Google for more data about its users, with more than two-thirds of requests in the U.S. made through a subpoena, which usually doesn?t require asking a judge for a search warrant.
User data requests of all kinds have increased by more than 70 percent since 2009, Google said in its biannual ?transparency report? that tallies government requests for users? data. For the six months from July through December 2012, the company said it has received about 21,389 information requests for some 33,634 users?up slightly from 20,938 requests for 34,615 users during the first half of the year.
For the first time, Google disclosed the types of legal process that government entities used to acquire the data. Sixty-eight percent of the 8,438 data requests in the U.S. were done through subpoenas. These types of requests were for user-identifying information issued under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and subpoena requests are the easiest to get because they typically don?t require a judge?s review, Google said.
Google?s latest transparency report reveals which legal processes the US government used to place its information requests. Most were by subpoena, which doesn't require approval from a judge. (Click to enlarge.)
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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More companies are storing their data in the cloud as part of a hybrid onsite and offsite storage solution, but many admit they are not able to back up large chunks of their data at all.
Research company Vanson Bourne surveyed 650 IT decision makers across the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and the Netherlands, which highlighted the way cloud backup and storage is now seen as a key component of hybrid storage environments. Some 66 percent of those surveyed said they would increase the amount of data they store in the cloud by 2015.
Among those already using hybrid storage systems, improved data security was cited as the reason why 66 percent moved from their old backup and recovery tools to onsite and offsite data protection. Some 57 percent said they preferred such a solution because their rapidly growing business critical data required protection against natural disaster and theft.
But 24 percent of respondents admitted to not telling their CEOs they are not backing up all files, especially those on mobile devices. The survey found 38 percent worried about their data not being saved securely, or whether data had been backed up at all.
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