The Betting and Gaming Council’s CEO and Acting Chair Michael Dugher has highlighted that Safer Gambling Week continues to be a “powerful advert” for player awareness of safer gambling tools.

According to the BGC, figures from Safer Gambling Week 2023 – which ran from November 13 to 19 – showed yearly growth in the number of players setting deposit limits, reality checks, maximum stake limits and increased awareness of the campaign across social media.

The number of deposit limits set during Safer Gambling Week rose by 18 per cent in comparison to the same month in 2022, while 54 per cent of players setting deposit limits did so for the first time.

There was also a 300 per cent increase for the second year in a row in the number of players actively setting a reality check, while the use of maximum stake limits also rose by 300 per cent.

In total, 83,242 unique account holders set deposit limits, which is up by 12.5 per cent in comparison to the previous year.

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Spelinspektionen, the Swedish gambling authority, has launched the “With your future as a bet” campaign for young adults, which will highlight the consequences of gambling for money.

Aimed at people aged between 18 and 25 years old, Spelinspektionen stated that the campaign focuses on unhealthy and risky gambling and features language that is “straight and concrete”.

The gambling authority has collaborated with the Swedish Public Health Agency and the Swedish Crown Prosecutor on the campaign “to counteract the negative consequences of gambling for money among young people”.

To help reach young people, the campaign will be visible on digital platforms young people use. There is also a page on Spelinspektionen’s website that offers information to young people about gambling and who they can turn to for help.

Yvonne Hejdenberg, Head of Communications at Spelinspektionen, stated: “Many come into contact with some form of gambling for money via computer games and apps. Through the campa..

Kansspelautoriteit, the Dutch gaming authority, believes it has taken a “major step” towards creating a safer online gambling market with the launch of its amended Responsible Gaming Policy.

The updated policy, published in the Netherlands’ Government Gazette, details a range of adjustments and clarifications, including the obligation for real-time monitoring and financial deposit limits. Changes have also been made to advertising rules.

While most of the amended Responsible Gaming Policy has come into effect as of today following publication in the Government Gazette, the remainder of the policy – such as deposit limits – will be enforced from October 1 due to necessary IT adjustments, recruitment of new employees and preparation time required before implementation.

The initial implementation date was set for May 2024, but the authority pushed this timeframe back to June due to the response period extension given to gaming industry stakeholders to comment on the proposed changes in..

GambleAware has revealed the donations it received across 2023/24 as British betting operators contributed heavily to the charity’s total of £49.5m in voluntary donations.

However, CEO Zoë Osmond has reiterated the message that vital funding for gambling harm prevention and treatment programmes should not be disrupted as services wait for the implementation of the new statutory levy.

Britain’s largest four gambling operators – bet365, Flutter Entertainment, Entain and William Hill – contributed around 94 per cent of the total figure, donating £46.6m to support GambleAware.

This figure from the ‘big four’ represents an increase of £3.1m from the operators’ contributions of £43.5m across 2022/23.

Described as essential funding by the organisation, the donations will aid the organisation in encouraging responsible gambling and player protection with public health campaigns, education and training programmes, harm prevention tools, treatment services and research.

Osmond stated: “..