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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 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

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Contents

1. 1 - Introduction Introduction to ABSG's report on the second year of the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms, including an overview of the aims, objectives and cross-cutting themes
2. 2 - Background Background to ABSG's report on the second year of the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms including a timeline of key events over the past 2 years
3. 3 - Impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on partnership working Information on how the impact of Covid-19 affected partnership working, and how the ABSG recognises this and plans to move forward.
4. 4 - Trends in gambling A closer look at the Gambling Commission’s monitoring of trends in gambling behaviour over the past year.
5. 5 - Gambling Act Review How the Gambling Act Review can be used to place greater emphasis on prevention and significantly reducing gambling harms
6. 6 - Online harms Online harms are being looked at closely, especially focused on the impact on children. ABSG’s advice called for the inclusion of gambling harms in this work.

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