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ABSG Progress Report on the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms – Year Two
ABSG - Year two Progress Report on the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms
Contents
- Executive summary
- Recommendations
- Introduction
- - Introduction
- - Background
- - Impact of Covid-19 on partnership working
- - Trends in gambling
- - Gambling Act Review
- - Online harms
- Delivery and governance
- - Delivery and governance
- - Progress involving people with lived experience of gambling harms.
- - Mixed picture of national strategic co-ordination of implementation
- - Metrics for measuring harm
- - Evaluation of policy
- - Funding
- - Research
- Prevention and education
- - Prevention and education
- - Improved regulatory protections
- - Suicide and gambling
- - Improved profile of gambling harms as a public health issue
- - Increased engagement from the financial services sector
- - Gambling is not yet fully integrated with local public health activity
- - Increased education and awareness raising activity
- Treatment and support
- - Treatment and support
- - Expansion of treatment and support services in new areas
- - The evidence base for treatment is developing but incomplete
- - Need for more integrated treatment services
- - Clarification of referral pathways required
- - Triage and completed treatments
- - Lack of independent quality assurance
- - Follow-up support
- Conclusions
- Annex 1: Priority Metrics for measurement of National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms
1 - Prevention and education
This section reviews progress in relation to the strategic objective of Prevention and Education.
Summary of findings – Prevention and Education
Strengths
- regulatory changes on safer game design and testing more stringent monitoring of ‘high value customers’
- new age restrictions for under-18s on scratchcards and other National Lottery products
- improved use of ad-tech to control marketing online
- customer interaction and affordability consultation
- increased focus and activity on this issue by the financial sector
- new targeted education campaigns and digital innovations
- multi-agency city-wide collaborations
- increased number of support services delivered by and with involvement of people with lived experience of gambling harms.
Weaknesses
- very little progress on addressing gambling related suicide
- limited progress on establishing a single customer view
- slow progress on integration of gambling harm prevention work into existing public health activities and infrastructure
- limited progress on establishing local area data collection to inform prevention and identify harms
- limited evaluation of impact of education campaigns
- limited information to assess the effectiveness of player messaging and other actions taken by industry to reduce harm in its customers.
Improved regulatory protections
Last updated: 25 June 2021
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