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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
8 - Annex 1: Priority Metrics for measurement of National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms
A list of recommended impact and outcome metrics was provided in the Year One Progress report. The following information provides a summary of those recommendations on impact - focusing on the key areas:
- where data is required
- how this could be obtained
- the key partners in the strategy who can make this happen.
Partnerships, led by government departments in the three nations, are best placed to provide the leadership to make progress. Once a baseline is established a key performance indicator (KPI) for reduction could be set. It will be important for this to be done in a way that allows identification of differences by age, ethnicity, geography and other social-economic factors. Without action to establish goals, metrics and a baseline position, there will continue to be limited progress on reporting impact.
| Topic | Data sources which could be used to create baseline | KPI goal – to be set once baseline is established | Key partners |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gambling-related suicides | Coroner records and Procurator Fiscal – and research working with coroners/PFs Banks - including data on accounts closed because of mortality. Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Index 2022 | It is recommended that challenging targets should be set for:
| Coroners and Procurator Fiscals Banks DHSC Research Councils UK and other health and public health research funders. |
| Gambling-related debt, bankruptcy and other financial harms | Data from the financial services sector Data on people seeking support in relation to debt – where gambling is a contributing factor. Data from other supporting services | Establish goal for % reduction in baseline | Financial sector – including banks and other lenders Citizens Advice and other third sector debt advice and supporting services Trussell Trust (Food banks) Research Councils UK and other health and public health research funders. |
| gambling-related homelessness | Data on homelessness caused by or associated with gambling. Public Health Outcomes Framework | Establish goal for % reduction in baseline | Local authorities Shelter and other third sector organisations Public Health England, Public Health Scotland, Public Health Wales. Research Councils UK and other health and public health research funders. |
| gambling-related loss of employment | Data on factors leading to unemployment and negative impacts on employment. | Establish goal for % reduction in baseline | JobCentrePlus Department for Work and Pensions Chambers of Commerce Citizens Advice Bureau Research Councils UK and other health and public health research funders. |
| Gambling-related domestic abuse and partner violence | Data on links between gambling and domestic violence. | Establish goal for % reduction in baseline | Courts Police Third sector e.g., NSPCC, Refuge Police. NHS Research Councils UK and other health and public health research funders. |
| Establish baseline data on gambling-related crime | Numbers of convictions and arrests where gambling is an associated factor. | Establish goal for % reduction in baseline | Courts Police Prisons Research Councils UK and other health and public health research funders. |
| Gambling-related mental health | Numbers seeking support for mental health problems where gambling is an associated factor. | Establish goal for % reduction in baseline | NHS Mental health support services and charities – e.g., MIND Research Councils UK and other health and public health research funders. |
ABSG RGH year 2 progress report - Conclusions
Last updated: 28 June 2021
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