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GambleAware is seeking to fund a research project that will further develop an understanding of informal and self-directed tools and strategies for reducing, preventing or managing gambling harms in Great Britain.

The project will build upon the findings in the ‘Self-help strategies for reducing gambling harms: Scoping study’ published in August 2023, which highlighted that people experiencing gambling harm were likely to use self-guided options to reduce the harms they were experiencing, but there is a “lack of knowledge on the most effective types of strategies or modes of delivery for gambling harm reduction”.

In addition, the August 2023 research found a “significant gap in the evidence regarding the experience and preferences of people who engage in self-directed change, particularly those from marginalised groups”.

Granting £297,900 in funds over 18 months, GambleAware is using the term ‘self-directed tools and strategies’ in this research project to include “any self-directe..

Gamban has secured a partnership with Svenska Spel to provide the Swedish gambling operator’s players with its blocking software.

The agreement will provide free blocking software to Svenska Spel’s customers who wish to stop gambling, offering those individuals who have chosen to self-exclude a free Gamban license and access to more support via the Gamban app.

According to a recent report by Spelinspektionen, the Swedish gambling authority, awareness of the country’s self-exclusion service Spelpaus has grown over the past year.

Spelinspektionen’s annual report on the gambling habits of the Swedish public revealed that 65 per cent of respondents are aware of the Spelpaus self-exclusion service, up on 2022’s figure of 62 per cent and 2021’s 59 per cent, with four per cent of that 65 stating they have used it.

Daniel Harre, Responsible Gambling Specialist, Svenska Spel AB, commented: “We’re convinced that if someone is suffering from their gambling they should not gamble at all.

“The..