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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 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
1 - Delivery and governance
This section focuses on the progress made to establish strong delivery mechanisms, including governance, leadership, evidence and funding. These aspects are essential to making effective progress and creating sustainable changes.
Summary of findings
Strengths
- increased involvement and co-production with people with lived experience of gambling harms
- Gambling Commission re-design of statistical outputs
- greater focus on evaluation – both of the impact of new regulatory policy and of pilot projects funded to support delivery of the National Strategy
- Strategy Implementation Groups for Scotland and Wales established
- increased activity at place-based level in England
- Gambling Commission commitment to identify metrics to measure its own performance and impact.
Weaknesses
- limited progress on national co-ordination in England
- limited progress on agreed metrics on the Strategy
- no progress on data repository
- delayed publication of PHE Evidence Review
- slow progress on timetable for NICE guideline development
- the roadmap for research funding remains unclear
- no progress on aligning with established research funders to improve transparency and robustness.
Progress involving people with lived experience of gambling harms.
Last updated: 8 December 2022
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The links 'Scotland' and 'Wales' have been combined and updated as the guides they originally linked to are due to be archived.