It has been just over five months since we published our new five-year Organisational Strategy with four key commissioning objectives at its core, to guide our work towards a society where everyone is safe from gambling harm.
Over the last few months, we have been busy with the announcement of several key commissioning projects, as outlined below. This is all whilst building the capability and capacity of the charity to boost our commissioning expertise and ensure that we have the infrastructure in place to deliver the many programmes of work required to keep people safe from gambling harm. We announced the hire of senior NHS and public health experts, and alongside this, we have just appointed four new trustees to guide the charity’s strategy. Details on these new trustee appointments will be announced next week.
As the leading commissioner of prevention and treatment services for gambling harms, it is important we remind all stakeholders of the importance of commissioning through a rigorous process to deliver better health outcomes. In doing so, to provide the best standard of quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation of key programmes and projects. Ultimately performance management of all commissioned work provides the assurance of independence, best in class outcomes and investment in building evidence of what works for whom.
To that end, in this newsletter, you will find details about new Invitations to Tender, which are designed to help inform the future of the National Gambling Treatment Service, support the creation of a new Gambling Harms Awareness and Training Programme, and the expansion of the Youth Hub Service.
I hope that many of you will be able to join our 9th Annual conference on December 8th titled Collaboration in the Prevention of Gambling Harm, which will be a hybrid event (in person at The King’s Fund and online). This year, we invited calls for proposal to diversify content with 5 panel sessions throughout the day including ‘working together to identify and reduce financial harms caused by gambling, using collaboration to adopt a whole system approach to prevent gambling harms and taking a collaborative approach to the development of treatment provision’. More details on speakers will be provided over the next few weeks and we very much hope to see you there, in person or online. Registration for the conference can be found here.
Meanwhile we continue to listen, to talk and to collaborate so that we can work together to deliver a vision of a society safe from gambling harm so please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
GambleAware has issued an Invitation to Tender to inform the development of an Outcomes Framework and Delivery Model for the future National Gambling Treatment Service. The expert consultancy body commissioned to deliver this work will help inform and co-design the National Gambling Treatment Service aiming to ensure robust, effective pathways of care, and to increase its capacity to ensure that it is accessible and effective. This critical work will help design what is the right and best treatment service to meet current and future demand. This activity is in addition to working with the NHS to support the roll out of clinic and place-based hubs across GB, extending residential rehabilitation (with focus on complex care), and retreat and counselling capabilities alongside existing support provision.
GambleAware continues to commit funds for research and prevention of gambling harms in Great Britain. Latest investments include a new commitment to support the academic community with the award of new PhD grants for gambling harm research awarded to universities in Great Britain to fund a total of six, three-year PhD studentships grants for 2021/22.
GambleAware committed £4m for the creation of Britain’s first independent Academic Research Hub specialising in gambling harm. The ambition is that the sizeable investment will have a transformative impact on bringing new disciplines into the gambling harms research field.
GambleAware is expanding the Gambling Education Hub, currently delivered in Scotland by Fast Forward, to England and Wales, to help reduce gambling harms among young people. One of the aims of the Gambling Education Hubs is to bring all the providers working in this space together to create a network where they can work towards shared objectives and outcomes, to refer to each other and co-deliver where appropriate, and share learning and best practice with one another.
The Gambling Education Hub model includes more than training sessions, most notably:
A network with meetings, events and newsletters to bring together practitioners in developing gambling education projects across England and Wales.
A comprehensive and evidence-based set of resources are available for adaptation from the Scottish Gambling Education Hubs toolkit.
GambleAware has issued an Invitation to Tender for the development and delivery of a new Gambling Harm Awareness and Support Training programme across Great Britain aimed at those who work or volunteer in eight sectors in direct contact with the community: debt advisors, faith leaders, primary care, social care, occupational health, criminal justice settings, housing and homelessness services and community pharmacies, to raise awareness and help prevent gambling harms.
Collaboration in the Prevention of Gambling Harms
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 8.30am – 5pm (GMT)
Location: The Kings Fund, Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN
And accessible online
GambleAware’s 9th annual conference will include opportunities to hear from those within the lived experience community and across the research, prevention, and treatment sectors in Britain talk about their work to help prevent gambling harms.
Our first ever ‘hybrid’ conference will be streamed live from the venue via our online event platform for those unable to attend in person and to reach a wider audience.
GambleAware has published new reports and a guide for the financial services industry to help prevent gambling harm.
GambleAware’s Bet Regret Campaign returned at the start of the English Premier League football season.
GambleAware’s Gambling Treatment and Support data is now available via the Consumer Data Research Centre for the wider research community to access.
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