Blog posts
Blog posts from teams across the Gambling Commission.
Posts from the Policy team
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Our Director of Policy Bryony Sheldon shares feedback from our Spring Conference and outlines some of the next steps regarding the evaluation of the Gambling Act Review.
28 May 2025 - Policy.
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Financial risk assessments pilot – update on Stage two
Our Director of Major Policy Projects and Evaluation Helen Rhodes provides a further update on the ongoing pilot of financial risk assessments.
21 May 2025 - Policy.
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Financial risk assessments pilot – update on progress
Our Director of Major Policy Projects and Evaluation Helen Rhodes provides an update on the ongoing pilot of financial risk assessments following completion of the first phase.
10 February 2025 - Policy.
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Gambling Act Review: Evaluation Update
Our Director of Policy Bryony Sheldon provides an update on work evaluating the Gambling Act Review in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
5 December 2024 - Policy.
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Gambling Act Review implementation update
Our Executive Director of Research and Policy Tim Miller provides an update on the Commission's commitments to the Gambling Act Review.
27 August 2024 - Policy.
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Financial risk assessments pilot update
Our Director of Major Policy Projects and Evaluation Helen Rhodes provides an update on the upcoming pilot of financial risk assessments.
27 August 2024 - Policy.
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Financial risk next steps – February 2024
Our Executive Director of Research and Policy Tim Miller provides an update on next steps for financial risk checks to help tackle gambling harms.
22 February 2024 - Policy.
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Widening the scope of GAMSTOP to include telephone and email betting
Our policy senior manager Graham Burgin talks through the actions telephone and email betting gambling businesses will need to take to participate in the GAMSTOP multi-operator self-exclusion scheme from 1 April 2024.
18 December 2023 - Policy.
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Looking forward to our second round of Gambling Act Review consultations
Our Executive Director of Research and Policy Tim Miller talks through plans for the second round of Gambling Act Review consultations.
15 November 2023 - Policy.
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Your questions answered on the financial risk checks consultation
Since the launch of our first set of consultations on the Government's Gambling Act Review White Paper, there's been some misunderstandings around financial risk checks and what they really mean. We've answered some important questions to clarify the most frequent misconceptions.
7 September 2023 - Policy.
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Football Index – your questions on the Gambling Commission’s role and responsibilities answered
On 23 September 2021, the independent report into BetIndex Limited (trading as Football Index) was published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
13 October 2021 - Policy.
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Commission welcomes ICO backing for consumer protection initiatives
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has been working with the Government and the Gambling Commission to support the delivery of new safeguards for gambling consumers.
13 July 2023 - Policy.
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Update on our plans for Gambling Act Review implementation
This month will see the Gambling Commission open our first consultations in the implementation of the Government’s Gambling Act Review White Paper.
7 July 2023 - Policy.
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Our plans for implementation of the Gambling Act Review White Paper
Almost a week has passed since Secretary of State for DCMS, Lucy Frazer, unveiled the Gambling Act Review White Paper in the House of Commons. At the same time, we published our advice to Government for the Review.
3 May 2023 - Policy.
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The National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms launched almost 3 years ago, and set the framework for improving prevention, education, and treatment support around gambling harms throughout Great Britain.
11 January 2022 - Policy.
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Placing data and insights at the heart of the Commission’s regulatory approach
Simo Dragicevic, member of the Gambling Commission's Digital Advisory Panel (DAP), reflects on the challenges and opportunities for increased use of data to develop better gambling regulation.
20 October 2022 - Digital, Communications, Insight, Policy.
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Gambling Prevalence Research: the view of Lived Experience
In May this year, members of the Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) met with the Gambling Commission’s Research and Statistics team, who are piloting a new method of gathering statistics on gambling participation and prevalence of gambling related harms.
18 October 2022 - Communications, Policy, Digital.
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New joiners to the Gambling Commission Policy Teams
At the moment, the recruitment market is busy and there is a huge amount of competition for talent. We wanted to share some stories of our newest joiners and explore what attracted them to the Gambling Commission as an employer, and how they are finding their new roles. As a small regulator with a large remit (we regulate both the Gambling Industry and the National Lottery) our work is both interesting and sometimes fairly specialised but we are always open to people with transferrable skills and a genuine interest in what we do.
6 October 2021 - Policy.
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