Responsible Gambling Week Uk

The UK Gambling Industry, led by the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), The Bingo Association (BA) and the British Amusement Catering Trade Association (bacta), has announced that Safer Gambling Week 2020 will take place from 19^th – 25^th November.

Reading Time: 3 minutes The biggest ever industry-wide campaign to promote responsible gambling is under way today (November 1), involving every major operator in the UK and Ireland. More than 127,000 staff at over 11,000 gambling venues and online sites in the UK and Ireland are taking part in Responsible Gambling Week, triggering a national. During the forthcoming seven days, many of the UK licensed gambling operators will be promoting Safer Gambling Week, highlighting and promoting responsible gambling. A spokesperson on behalf of Safer Gambling Week said: “ We want to take the message about safer gambling even further this year, and are hoping that this will be our biggest.

The annual campaign builds on the success of Responsible Gambling Week, which began in 2017 – the first campaign to unite all sectors of the gambling industry – and marks the successful growth and evolution of the on-going awareness and education campaign, participants and supporters of which now extend far beyond the gambling sector.

The leading trade associations bring together every sector of the UK gambling industry through their membership, that work with the wide and diverse range of other supporting organisations (manufacturing, service, charities), all with the common objective of raising awareness of safer gambling behaviours and encouraging staff, customers and the wider public to discuss what it means to gamble more safely.

Let’s Talk About Safer Gambling will remain the strapline of Safer Gambling Week 2020: the tone set by this message has been well received by all supporters and has also been found, through research, to strike the right chord with the wide and diverse range of audiences that the campaign seeks to reach. In coming together with one voice, the campaign, through an ever increasing number and range of supporters, is able extend its reach, year on year, and build on and add to the work that takes place throughout the year on safer gambling, education, awareness and support.

Operators promote responsible gambling 365 days of the year, but Safer Gambling Week creates the opportunity for all businesses and organisations to start a conversation about safer gambling not only with their customers, but also with their staff and in turn their friends and family.

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Michael Dugher, Chief Executive, Betting and Gaming Council, said: “As the new body representing the betting and gaming industry, the BGC is committed to driving up standards and promoting safer gambling.

“Safer Gambling Week is a fantastic initiative which the BGC are proud to play a leading role in. This awareness campaign is now in its fourth year and it has achieved a significant increase in engagement at all levels on the tools and support available to customers.

“We achieved over 25 million impressions on social media in 2019, setting a new benchmark for the campaign, which demonstrates the breadth and reach of the campaign.

“Our members are determined to raise standards and as part of this year’s campaign can point to significant changes that we have introduced, including new cooling-off periods on gaming machines, substantially increased funding for research, education and treatment; a ‘whistle to whistle’ ban on advertising during sport; new ID and age-verification checks and a ban on betting with credit cards.

“And during the covid-19 outbreak, we have published a 10-pledge action plan to promote safer gambling, while our members also voluntarily agreed to remove TV and radio gaming advertising, replacing their slots with safer gambling messages or donating them to charity.

“As businesses emerge from lockdown, I’m looking forward to this year’s Safer Gambling Week being a tremendous success.”

The ‘Responsible Gambling Week’ is an annual event that takes place in the United Kingdom in a bid to educate and promote responsible gambling throughout the country. Ireland has also held a Responsible Gambling Week in the past but this time around both Ireland and the UK will team up for the first time to hold a joint promote that runs from Nov 1 to Nov 7.

This co-promotion will see as many as eleven thousand gambling operators which include online as well as land base casino operators team up to push responsible gambling measures. The campaign will also have one hundred and twenty organizations on board who support the push for responsible gambling throughout the UK and Ireland.

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This special Responsible Gambling Week promotion is backed by over 800 bookmakers in Ireland, the United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) and responsible gambling organizations such as GamCare, GambleAware and Young Gamblers’ Education Trust. The theme for the week will be “Let’s Talk About Safer Gaming.”

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In a statement, John Hagan, Chairman of the Industry Group for Responsible Gambling said

It is heartening to see the support of leading operators for Responsible Gambling Week. Our aim is to make the event bigger and better than last year, and we are using the collective networks, venues and staff of all gambling sectors, and our digital channels, to reach a wider audience and raise awareness

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There has been a massive increase in gambling addiction throughout the UK and Ireland during the last few years and both governments have been forced to recognize and deal with the increase of gambling addiction in minors as well as adults.

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While gambling regulators and advertising watchdogs have stepped up efforts to limit the impact of problem gambling, there is a lot more that can be done and the Responsible Gambling Week will look at some of the additional initiatives that can be taken by gambling operators as well as players to protect themselves from being exposed to gambling addiction.

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The week long campaign will look at the importance of having open lines of communication, following throughout with practical advice and getting help before things get out of hand. Gambling addiction organizations will look at providing better education as well as steps for gamblers to identify how to recognize signs of addiction and get the help they need at the earliest.