May 13, 2019

As part of the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms the Commission has published a new framework to understand gambling harms experienced by children and young people.

The report, which has been developed by Ipsos MORI in collaboration with the Gambling Commission, Advisory Board for Safer Gambling and GambleAware, presents a framework to better understand the ways that harms from gambling can impact upon the health, relationships and finances of young people. It builds on earlier work to develop a framework for gambling harms among adults.

The Commission says that the framework has been designed to cover the broad spectrum of harms that can impact young people, and the next phase of work will test some survey questions for measuring gambling harms. The questions have been included on Ipsos MORI’s Young Person’s Omnibus survey and the data will be analysed to explore which questions are most and least effective for further monitoring. To read the Commission’s announcement in full and for a link to the reducing gambling harms strategy, click here.