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Raising Standards for consumers - Compliance and Enforcement report 2019 to 2020
The Gambling Commission's report on Compliance and Enforcement action 2019 to 2020. Archived: Report represents information and guidance valid at the time of publication.
1 - Delivery and governance
This section focuses on the progress made to establish strong delivery mechanisms, including governance, leadership, evidence and funding. These aspects are essential to making effective progress and creating sustainable changes.
Summary of findings
Strengths
- increased involvement and co-production with people with lived experience of gambling harms
- Gambling Commission re-design of statistical outputs
- greater focus on evaluation – both of the impact of new regulatory policy and of pilot projects funded to support delivery of the National Strategy
- Strategy Implementation Groups for Scotland and Wales established
- increased activity at place-based level in England
- Gambling Commission commitment to identify metrics to measure its own performance and impact.
Weaknesses
- limited progress on national co-ordination in England
- limited progress on agreed metrics on the Strategy
- no progress on data repository
- delayed publication of PHE Evidence Review
- slow progress on timetable for NICE guideline development
- the roadmap for research funding remains unclear
- no progress on aligning with established research funders to improve transparency and robustness.
Last updated: 8 December 2022
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