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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
5 - Gambling Act Review
Another key milestone during the year has been the launch of the Gambling Act Review in December 2020†. This is an important opportunity to consider how changes to legislation and regulatory powers and resources can help in reducing gambling harms.
The scope of the review is wide, meaning this is a significant opportunity to make changes which place greater emphasis on prevention and significantly reduce gambling harms. Addressing the gaps in prevention, education and treatment provision should not be overlooked. We also note that the process of updating legislation is lengthy, and so the momentum to strengthen regulatory protections in parallel with the review must continue.
References
24 Review of the Gambling Act 2005 Terms of Reference and Call for Evidence (opens in new tab), DCMS, December 2020
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Last updated: 25 June 2021
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