Age restrictions and warning labels have been used in gambling to reduce harms for youth and vulnerable populations. This report will provide an overview of adherence to legal age limits for gambling, ways to enforce age limits, warning labels, unintentional consequences, and guidelines for advertising. For an overview of different age restrictions set by several Western countries, i please refer to Appendix A: Age Restrictions Around the World. Refer to Appendix B: Overview of Age Restrictions and Gambling for literature on youth and gambling, the awareness of age restrictions, and the evidence for age restrictions.
Addiction Recovery Agency (Ara) and Beacon Counseling Trust (BCT) provide critical safer gambling education and treatment services for the West of England, North West England, and Wales. Their respective dedication to the safer gambling field and commitment to enhancing system integration led to a natural partnership between the two organisations. Drawing from Ara and BCT’s significant expertise, they partnered to develop a suite of safer gambling programmes. As the suite of innovative programmes grew, they recognised a need to articulate and share their leadership in transforming the safer gambling landscape in England and Wales. The Safer Gambling Movement describes Ara and Beacon’s leadership in developing a grassroots movement to build momentum for a national public health approach in Great Britain by first building this capacity in England and Wales. GREO was brought on as the evaluation partner to help create a theory of change to describe this work and lay the foundation for future evaluations.
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