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GambleAware publishes details of funding received during 2018-19

GambleAware (an independent charity tasked to fund research, prevention and treatment services to help to reduce gambling harms in Great Britain) asks all those who profit from the gambling industry in Great Britain, whether or not they hold a licence from the Gambling Commission, to donate a minimum of 0.1% of their annual Gross Gambling […]

Measuring gambling-related harms among children and young people

As part of its National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms, the Gambling Commission has today announced on its website publication of a new framework to understand gambling harms experienced by children and young people. The framework document (entitled “Measuring gambling-related harms among children and young people”) can be downloaded below. In light of the title of the framework […]

New age and identity verification requirements for online operators come into force on 7 May 2019

We have reported previously that age and identity verification changes to the Gambling Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (“LCCP”) – applicable to online betting, gaming and lottery operators (other than those lotteries that only offer subscription or low frequency lotteries) – will come into force on 7 May 2019. David Clifton was subsequently quoted on the same subject in an […]

Pubs Code and PCA statutory review invites views and evidence

By way of a consultation that closes at 11.45pm on 22 July 2019, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is seeking views and evidence that will inform the Government’s statutory review of the Pubs Code and the Pubs Code Adjudicator (“PCA”). This is likely to elicit a wide variety of opinions from, amongst others, the […]

Gambling Commission no longer requires passport photographs

The Gambling Commission has announced (under the heading “Change to personal licence application, maintenance and Annex A declaration”) that it no longer requires a passport photograph to be submitted as part of a personal licence application, maintenance or Annex A declaration. It states that: it is currently in the process of removing any references to photographs from […]

Joint CMA & Gambling Commission letter to the UK remote gambling sector

A letter has been published today by the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) and the Gambling Commission confirming that they have concluded their joint programme of work concerning suspected breaches of consumer protection law in the remote gambling sector, with a particular focus on: the fairness, transparency and potential for consumers to be misled by a number […]

KnowNow blog on new Gambling Harm Reduction strategy

In advance of their Player Protection Forum on 22 May 2019, which will be chaired by David Clifton, KnowNow have published a further blog providing links to our website articles entitled: “New National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms published” and  “Major operators lead change of direction on betting advertising”. You can download this latest KnowNow […]

Clifton Davies address international audience at U.S. sports betting conference

Both David Clifton and Suzanne Davies spoke to international audiences during this week’s extremely successful and very well-attended SBC Events’ Betting on Sports America conference that took place at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, New Jersey, U.S.A on 24 and 25 April 2019. David (above) is pictured below second from the left below (listening to a question raised by the […]

Major operators lead change of direction on betting advertising

On the same day that the Gambling Commission has published the new National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms, GVC Holdings PLC – the global sports-betting and gaming group and owner of Ladbrokes and Coral – has called for an end to all UK sports-betting broadcast advertising, at any time of the day, on live and repeated sporting events […]

New National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms published

The Gambling Commission has published the new National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms, a three-year strategy which will drive and coordinate work to bring a lasting impact on reducing gambling harms. You can download the National Strategy document below. It has also launched a new website – www.reducinggamblingharms.org – where all information on the priorities identified […]