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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
25 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

4 - Delivery and governance

Contents

1. 1 - Delivery and governance Information on the progress made to establish strong delivery, including a summary of findings, and the strengths and weaknesses of these findings.
2. 2 - Progress involving people with lived experience of gambling harms. Information on the progress made with organisations led by people with lived experience of gambling harms, including a case study from the Lived Experience Advisory Panel
3. 3 - Mixed picture of national strategic co-ordination of implementation A closer look at the Strategic Implementation Groups (SIGs) that were established and the work that they do, including a case study from the SIG for Scotland.
4. 4 - Metrics for measuring harm Information on the metrics proposed by the ABSG in order to measure gambling related harms, and how this data will be used to inform decisions.
5. 5 - Evaluation of policy How the evaluation of policy is key in our understanding of gambling harms. Includes two case studies from different areas of evaluation.
6. 6 - Funding A look at funding and how the effects of Covid-19 have caused uncertainty over the distribution of voluntary contributions
7. 7 - Research A look at how research is vital in the work to understand gambling harms, and the changes to research collection which may affect this.

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