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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

5 - Prevention and education

Contents

1. 1 - Prevention and education Information on prevention and education, including a summary of findings, and the strengths and weaknesses of these findings.
2. 2 - Improved regulatory protections Information on the improved regulatory protections and how these changes may improve consumer protection.
3. 3 - Suicide and gambling Details of the progress and evidence for the prevention of gambling-related suicide and training among coroners.
4. 4 - Improved profile of gambling harms as a public health issue Information on the progress in improving the profile of gambling harms as a public health issue, and the specific milestones met this year.
5. 5 - Increased engagement from the financial services sector There has been progress made in regards to increased engagement from the financial services sector which contributes to reducing gambling harms.
6. 6 - Gambling is not yet fully integrated with local public health activity Information on the pilots used to demonstrate how harm prevention and support for at risk groups can be integrated with wider services and public health activities.
7. 7 - Increased education and awareness raising activity Details on the increase in education and awareness raising activity which is vital to reducing gambling harms. Contains a case study on 'Don’t Bet Your Life on It'.

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