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The National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms

The sole and critical aim of the National Strategy for 2019 to 2022 was to make better and faster progress to reduce gambling harms.

The National Strategy identified two collective strategic priorities:

  • Prevention and Education to move towards a collective and clear prevention plan with the right mix of intervention
  • Treatment and Support to make significant progress towards truly national treatment and support options that met the needs of service users.

Progress towards these strategic priorities would be delivered through four enablers:

  • regulation and oversight to deliver widespread option of best practice through regulatory frameworks
  • collaboration to develop and improve existing practice and identify new ways to reduce gambling harms
  • evaluation to understand what works to reduce gambling harms
  • research to inform action to strengthen the link between research and policy.
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