The trade body for UK gambling was provided with independent data by Serve Legal, which reported that members had secured a 91.4% age verification pass rate across thousands of annual checks.
Serve Legal is recognised as the leading auditor of ID verification, age-approval, and compliance testing services for businesses and authorities in the UK and Ireland.
Of particular note, UK casinos achieved a near-perfect pass rate of 98%. Overall, the BGC states that members have garnered a 30% compliance increase across the audit volume since 2009, when Serve Legal began working with the regulated betting and gaming sector.
The results of the audit underline BGC members’ zero-tolerance approach to engaging with underage audiences.
The BGC emphasised that its members are now leading other UK sectors in age verification comp..