General Article Supporting schools to tackle and prevent gambling harms

Topic Selected: Gambling Book Volume: 420

A new framework is designed to help teachers and leaders approach the growing concern of gambling harms with confidence, writes Jane Rigbye.

Teachers are coming to us more and more seeking support to talk about gambling. That’s a good thing. It’s in part due to gambling being included in the new PSHE curriculum introduced last year. But there are other reasons too.

In 2019, the Gambling Commission estimated that as many as 350,000 11-to-16-year-olds were spending their own money on gambling e...

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