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UKGC publishes first National Strategic Assessment6 November 2020(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Gambling Commission has published its first ever National Strategic Assessment. The document uses the latest available evidence, from a wide range of sources and case studies, to assess the issues and the risks gambling presents to consumers and the public. It sets out the Commission’s priority actions to address those risks and issues, as well as highlighting a number of areas where significant progress is already made to make gambling safer. Commission Chief Executive Neil McArthur said: “We will use our National Strategic Assessment as the foundation for prioritizing our work over the coming months and years. “We look forward to working with the government on the forthcoming review of the Gambling Act and alongside that work we will be working hard to address the issues that we have identi?ed in our Strategic Assessment. “We have demonstrated that we are willing and able to respond quickly to emerging issues and risks and that we will use the full range of our powers to protect consumers. We and have made considerable progress in many areas to make gambling safer - but we want to go further and faster.” The Gambling Commission has also today published its annual Compliance and Enforcement Report – a document featuring the findings of the regulator’s extensive casework against licence holders and detailing where the industry needs to raise standards. This year’s report sets out how over the last financial year the Commission’s work has included:
“Our latest report shows that where licensees fail to meet the standards we expect, we will take tough action, including the suspension and revocation of licenses. It also charts how we are shifting our focus towards personal management license holders - those in boardrooms and senior positions need to live up to their responsibilities and we will continue to hold people to account for failings they knew, or ought to have known, about. “Everyone has a part to play to make gambling safer and learning the lessons from the failings identified in this report is one way of doing that.”
UKGC publishes first National Strategic Assessment
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