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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

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Published
7 July 2021

Last updated
28 June 2021 - Changes

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Contents

• ABSG Progress Report on the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms – Year Two

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• Executive summary
• Recommendations
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Background
• Impact of coronavirus (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

6 - Treatment and support

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1. 1 - Treatment and support This section reviews progress in relation to the strategic objective of Treatment and Support, including a summary of findings.
2. 2 - Expansion of treatment and support services in new areas A look at the expansion of treatment and support services in new areas, and how these developments will help to improve understanding of gambling related harms.
3. 3 - The evidence base for treatment is developing but incomplete The evidence base for treatment is developing but incomplete, and ABSG look forward to PHE’s evidence review, due to be published in the summer of 2021
4. 4 - Need for more integrated treatment services There is a need for more integrated treatment services so that those in need of help can access a wider range of help, and have access to a clear treatment pathway
5. 5 - Clarification of referral pathways required There are weaknesses between different organisations providing treatment and support services. Includes data showing referrals to GambleAware funded treatment services
6. 6 - Triage and completed treatments A look at the data used to evaluate triage and completed treatments in the current support system
7. 7 - Lack of independent quality assurance ABSG continue to stress the importance of external quality assurance in addition to any investment in internal QA processes
8. 8 - Follow-up support Our observations suggest that the protocols for follow up support to prevent recurrence remain unclear, and there is potential for improvement

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Last updated: 28 June 2021

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