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Sun, 22 May 2022

Articles tagged with: Safer Gambling Week

The Government should treat betting like booze - not like tobacco

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11 Mar Health

The Government should treat betting like booze - not like tobacco

After more than a year of waiting for the outcome of the Gambling Review, and with the Government changing its ministers more times than Watford change football managers, it strikes me that the debate has boiled down to this: should betting be treated like tobacco, which is inherently and universally damaging to all, or should it be treated more like alcohol, something millions of people do and where the vast majority are able to enjoy it responsibly, but where sadly a small minority can have a problem and, in the most extreme and terrible cases, it can be an addiction?

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17 Nov 2021 Health

Safer Gambling Week 2021 hailed ‘huge success’ as new figures confirm Record-Breaking Campaign

Safer Gambling Week 2021 has been described as a “huge success” after it emerged this year’s campaign had broken all previous records.

Rates of problem gambling are falling, but on the BGC's second anniversary, our commitment to safer gambling is stronger than ever

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06 Nov 2021 Health

Rates of problem gambling are falling, but on the BGC's second anniversary, our commitment to safer gambling is stronger than ever

It’s entirely fitting that the Betting and Gaming Council’s second anniversary should fall during this year’s Safer Gambling Week.

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01 Nov 2021 Health

Problem gambling rates are falling but safer gambling ‘our top priority all year round’, says BCG Boss at start of Safer Gambling Week

Safer gambling is the regulated betting and gaming industry’s “top priority all year round”, standards body boss Michael Dugher has declared.

This year’s political cringe event is here - the gambling industry’s Safer Gambling Week

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28 Oct 2021 Health

This year’s political cringe event is here - the gambling industry’s Safer Gambling Week

It’s time to cut through the gambling industry’s cynical and patronising PR and legislate for what people really need – a public health approach to the risks of gambling.

‘Take Time to Think’ is another step on our journey to keep customers safe and in control of their betting

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15 Oct 2021 Health

‘Take Time to Think’ is another step on our journey to keep customers safe and in control of their betting

Today the Betting and Gaming Council is launching a new campaign which is aimed at encouraging the 30 million people in Britain who enjoy a flutter to consider using the range of safer gambling tools at their disposal.

Advertising may be annoying, yet all the evidence shows gambling advertising does not equal harm - but let’s keep driving change and raising standards

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09 Sep 2021 Education

Advertising may be annoying, yet all the evidence shows gambling advertising does not equal harm - but let’s keep driving change and raising standards

When I asked a team of pollsters and focus groups specialists, who’d been going round the country recently, what people thought of advertising, the reply from one veteran top political numbers man was: “They just find it annoying”. I then followed up and said: “Gambling advertising in particular?” He replied: “No. All advertising”.

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02 Sep 2021 Communities

BGC Chairman Brigid Simmonds Comments on Appointment of New Gambling Commission Chair

The BGC’s drive to promote safer gambling has produced tangible results, but we are determined to go further

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27 Aug 2021 Education

The BGC’s drive to promote safer gambling has produced tangible results, but we are determined to go further

When the Betting and Gaming Council was established towards the end of 2019, we were clear that, as well as representing the regulated industry, we were a standards body with a clear mission to promote safer gambling.

Evidence from abroad shows the unregulated black market will benefit unless we get the gambling review right

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21 Aug 2021 Health

Evidence from abroad shows the unregulated black market will benefit unless we get the gambling review right

In the final debate in the House of Commons before the summer recess, the Minister heading the Government’s Review of Gambling, John Whittingdale, told MPs: “It is very important that we create a safe space where people are given protection if they are gambling online, but we do not want to drive them away from the regulated sector and into the black market. That is certainly something that we will bear in mind during our consideration of these things”.

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20 May 2021 Communities

Betting and gaming industry unites once again for Safer Gambling Week 2021

The regulated betting and gaming industry is joining forces once again for Safer Gambling Week 2021.