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DCMS pledges fair & ethical Evaluation of Gambling Review’s policy measures

SBC News DCMS pledges fair & ethical Evaluation of Gambling Review's policy measures

DCMS and the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) have published the ‘Evaluation Plan‘ on the impact of the policy measures undertaken by the Gambling Act Review. The evaluation of policy measures will be conducted by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), which began a scoping study in January 2024, to be followed by fieldwork research beginning in January 2025. NatCen …

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Loyalty card problem gambling rates not representative of population

SBC News Loyalty card problem gambling rates not representative of population

One of the lead researchers on the Responsible Gambling Trust’s investigations into problem gambling on machines has warned against applying its findings from loyalty cards to the whole machine gaming public. Heather Wardle, Research Director of NatCen Group, stated that the identified problem gambling rate of 23% found in its sample could not be comfortably extrapolated to every gaming machine player …

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