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Irish Bookmakers Association. (2021) Safer gambling code. Dublin: Irish Bookmakers Association.

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All subscribers will make a voluntary contribution to the SRF, and as a requirement of subscription, strive to minimise gambling-related harm. Key to this is effective education and prevention techniques, designed to prevent people getting to a stage where they have a problem with their gambling. This SRF fund will be given to The Gambling Awareness Trust (GAT). GAT is an independent charity that has been set up to establish and operate a charitable fund which will fund problem gambling counselling, prevention, education, research, and awareness services in Ireland. 

The GAT goals include;

  • Ensuring approved, relevant and competent service providers have funding to provide addiction counselling, education and gambling awareness services in Ireland.
  • Commission and supervise comprehensive research in the area of gambling addiction for retail and online, and the gambling addiction services available in Ireland.
  • Ensure GAT operates to the highest Governance standards.
  • Raise awareness of Safer gambling and ensure people who choose to gamble make informed and sensible choices.
  • Raise awareness and increase the availability of problem gambling service providers. All Subscribers will also:
  • Co-operate with any Government led Irish Gambling Prevalence Study to understand how many people in Ireland have a problem with their gambling
  • Ensure that gambling information indicating where help can be obtained is displayed prominently on all premises and all online gambling platforms
  • Promote Safer Gambling campaigns. 

Operators that contribute to SRF, will be listed on the www.GamblingAwarenessTrust.ie website which is owned and administered by The Gambling Awareness Trust (GAT). GAT is committed to providing a hub of safer gambling information for customers and industry members alike, through a dedicated website at www.gamblingcare.ie. The site will also provide details on services provided by experts in the field of addiction in Ireland.

Item Type
Report
Publication Type
Irish-related, Guideline, Report
Drug Type
Behavioural addiction
Intervention Type
Harm reduction, Policy
Date
29 August 2021
Pages
18 p.
Publisher
Irish Bookmakers Association
Corporate Creators
Irish Bookmakers Association
Place of Publication
Dublin
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