From April 2019 to April 2022, Greo partnered with the Gambling Commission of Great Britain to support the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms in Great Britain. The Gambling Commission published the National Strategy following extensive engagement and input from a wide range of stakeholders with an interest in reducing gambling harms. The National Strategy aimed to move quickly and enlist a broad range of partners to reduce gambling harm, including Greo.
The two strategic priorities were prevention and education and treatment and support, which included four important enablers: regulation and oversight, collaboration, evaluation, and research to inform action. Greo supported the National Strategy by applying our skills and expertise to the Strategy's evaluation and research to inform action enablers.
To provide the infrastructure to collate and disseminate research and assess the impact of research on policy in the UK, Greo built the Research to Inform Action Evidence Hub.
Our Safer Gambling Evaluation Evidence Hub promoted access to the best evidence for evaluation approaches by curating a collection of best practices and evaluation tools to be shared with National Strategy partners and stakeholders.
Our What's New in Gambling Research newsletter was yet another way in which we delivered the latest information in support of the National Strategy. Read past issues below.