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GambleAware targets wider availability of support with interactive maps 25th May 2021 | By Robert Fletcher British gambling charity GambleAware has launched a set of new interactive maps to help identify take up and reported demand for treatment and support services for gambling harms across Great Britain. The maps indicate the areas that have a higher take up of gambling treatment and support, as well as the regions where there is a greater reported demand for, or awareness of, such services. In areas where there is a reportedly higher reported demand for gambling treatment, the charity enco...

Regular gamblers were more than six times more likely to gamble online compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

GambleAware-backed study warns of selection bias in gambling harm research 14th May 2021 | By Robert Fletcher Research commissioned by British gambling charity GambleAware has warned that online surveys of gambling harm face a “particular risk” of selection bias, which can inflate the numbers of those experiencing harm if not properly accounted for. However, it added that measurement of gambling-related harm should still generally should move to online surveying – adjusted through less frequent face-to-face “benchmarks” – due to high costs and sample-size issues in face-to-face su...

GambleAware recommends that gambling prevalence research should move online Share GambleAware has published ‘ commissioned research’ to clarify fragmented data, insights and analysis of the UK’s gambling participation and its associated prevalence of related harms.  The research, undertaken by Professor Patrick Sturgis and Professor London School of Economics, was commissioned by GambleAware following concerns about discrepancies between a YouGov 2019 survey and ‘ 2018 Health Survey for England’.  YouGov feedback registered ‘substantially higher rates of gambling harm than h...

GambleAware partners Expert Link for new nationwide support network 11th February 2021 | By Robert Fletcher British gambling charity GambleAware has partnered with research organisation Expert Link on a new initiative to co-design and deliver a nationwide network of people with lived experience of gambling harms. Expert Link will design an entirely independent network that will operate across Great Britain and be representative of the entire British community, focusing on equality, diversity and inclusion. Once formed, the group will also develop capacity and resource to meaningfully particip...