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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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• 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 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 - Treatment and support

Summary of findings – Treatment and Support

Strengths

• increased involvement of people with lived experience
• some limited expansion of treatment and support in new areas
• increased momentum in primary care involvement alongside whole systems approaches.

Weaknesses

• the evidence base for treatment is developing but incomplete
• lack of agreed screening interventions to identify those at risk
• limited evidence of interventions to monitor and support ongoing recovery
• services are not well integrated
• clarification of referral pathways still required
• limited data on who needs treatment and support
• lack of progress on independent quality assurance
• evidence of poor follow up support emerging
• low take up of treatment and lack of awareness of support available.

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Last updated: 28 June 2021

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