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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
4 - Delivery and governance
Contents
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Funding A look at funding and how the effects of Covid-19 have caused uncertainty over the distribution of voluntary contributions
- 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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Last updated: 25 June 2021
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