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GamCare has vowed to continue to support the wider gambling harm treatment sector’s ongoing transition under the statutory levy on gambling harms.

The UK’s biggest frontline charity and provider of treatment, support and intervention services of gambling harms/addiction has published its Trustee Report 2025/2026.

Margot Daly: GamCare

The report covers GamCare activities during the “the last financial year of the voluntary levy system, ahead of new statutory levy commissioning from April 2026 by NHS England”.

NHS England is one of the three stewards of gambling harm funding under the levy system, the others being the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Reflecting on a period of encompassing a system transition for gambling-harm organisations, Chair Margot Daly said GamCare’s priority had been “to keep the quality of services at the centre of every decision”.

“After nearly three decades in this sector, we know that periods of ..

Gibraltar-based operator QuinnBet, which counts the UK and Ireland as core markets, has agreed to a £609,104 settlement with the UK Gambling Commission.

According to the gambling regulator, the settlement is in relation to identified social responsibility and anti-money laundering deficiencies following an investigation into QuinnBet’s due diligence compliance.

QuinnBet – which is 17th and 70th in Ireland and the UK respectively in terms of online traffic, according to Blask – has confirmed to SBC Media that the Commission’s compliance assessment took place in March 2025, when the deficiencies were flagged.

Brenda Quinn, Chief Executive Officer of QuinnBet, added: “We took action to address the matters identified, strengthening our policies, procedures and controls and making significant investment in our people and technology. These improvements were subsequently reviewed by the Commission, and the issues identified were resolved to its satisfaction.

“We have agreed a regulatory s..

GamCare has invested in resources to expand its problem gambling support and treatment network to the most remote areas of the UK.

Announced this morning, GamCare, the UK’s leading advice, intervention and treatment service for problem gambling, will make localised support services available across the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

GamCare states that it “will be offering free treatment sessions for anyone struggling with activity across the Northern Isles including Shetland and Orkney, as well as Highland areas as part of its coverage”.

The expansion has been funded by the Scottish government through its allocation of the UK-wide statutory Levy on Gambling Harms with resources committed for three years until March 2029.

GamCare cites that its investment marks a ‘frontline commitment’ in support of the new structure of Levy on Gambling Harms, overseen by the NHS and the NHS England UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) (30%..

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received a total of 125 complaints that raised concerns regarding five advertisements from the Dribble Media brand Midnite.

Two TV ads, two VOD ads and a radio ad for the Midnite betting app appeared across media platforms in April and May 2026, which complainants believed ‘portrayed and encouraged gambling behaviour that could lead to financial, social or emotional harm and suggested that gambling was an escape from personal problems’, according to the ASA.

In its ruling, the authority told the operator that the adverts in question must not appear again in the form complained of, and that future advertising mustn’t portray or encourage gambling behaviour that could lead to financial, social or emotional harm and should not suggest that gambling was an escape from personal problems.

iGaming Expert has reached out to Midnite for comment on the ruling from the ASA regarding its five adverts that received a total of 125 complaints.

Midnite adv..

The Gambling Commission was always risking inflaming a conflict with the industry as it moved to implement Financial Risk Assessments.

Despite seeking to assure caution from the industry through the phased implementation of FRAs, Betting and Gaming Council CEO Grainne Hurst has retaliated by slamming the GC for ‘failing to address the fundamental issues identified during its own pilot’.

Acting CEO Sarah Gardner stated that there is still an eagerness to work with the industry as the integration of FRAs develops.

Yet the BGC has underscored its concerns that industry warnings are falling on deaf ears, Hurst expressed ‘deep disappointment and frustration that the Gambling Commission has decided to press ahead with Financial Risk Assessments’.

She continued: “The fact that the Gambling Commission has delayed implementation, raised thresholds and abandoned its original timetable is a clear recognition that the concerns raised by the BGC and others were well founded. Unfortunately, t..

BetBlocker Director of Strategy & Partnerships Monica Shafaq has been appointed Chair of Trustees at UK charity Recover Together. Shafaq has great experience in the charity sector, and specifically within charities dealing with gambling harm, following several years as CEO at treatment centre Gordon Moody, which she left last year amid concerns about discrimination and…

Sarah Gardner, Acting Chief Executive (CEO) of the Gambling Commission, has committed to releasing the full dataset, evidence and methodology behind the decision to implement Financial Risk Assessments (FRAs) sometime this Autumn. The confirmation came as part of an official response to a series of questions raised by the cross-party Culture, Media and Sport Committee earlier in July,…

Adult Gaming Centres (AGCs) are set to feel the wrath of a new political agenda in the UK, as Andy Burnham has confirmed his support for the hospitality sector through a 20% cut in business rates, which will be funded by higher taxes on AGCs.

Just four days into his premiership, Burnham is already embarking on sweeping change, and he emphasised his belief that ‘can’t see all businesses as the same’.

Announcing the policy, he specifically picked out AGCs as causing social harm, grouping them in with vape shops as a specific element of the high street that offers very little to the community.

It remains unclear exactly what this tax will look like; however, as Manchester Mayor, Burnham lent his weight to campaigns led by local council members to halt the number of new AGCs opening and grant councils greater powers over planning permission.

Burnham could well be about to toe the line of the Social Market Foundation (SMF), which proposed a doubling of the Machine Games Duty on Cate..