Youth
GamCare highlights the potential harm lootboxes and skins betting can have on young people
GamCare’s Financial Harm Manager, Raminta Diliso, examines the growing relationship between the financial harms of online gambling and gaming with young people and how we can address it. The internet has …
Read moreFive signs for students to be mindful of when gambling
With students descending on university campuses once again for this year’s Freshers Week, Ciaran, from GamCare’s Youth team highlights the key signs students should be mindful of when gambling at …
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Survey for Young People – How Do you Want to Access Support?
So that we can provide support in the most accessible way possible for young people, we are consulting on the design for a digital support tool. We need to hear from young people directly to make sure we …
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Hidden Harms for Young Adults
Guest blogger Jack explores why it’s more important than ever to focus on how young adults interact with gambling, and how the organisations which support them can tackle gambling harms.
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Gaming Safety
New research has highlighted key advice for parents and carers on how to control online /in-app purchases for young people and help to keep them safe.
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Giving Young People the Facts About Gambling
Guest blogger Matt considers why it’s so important for young people to hear about gambling in formal education, and how GamCare’s new programme with YGAM will help.
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Students and Gambling
Guest blogger Fay thinks about how we can protect young people at university from developing problems with gambling.
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GamCare’s Youth Outreach Programme is Expanding
Bethany shares details of the work of GamCare’s Youth Outreach Programme is doing and how the programme is expanding.
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Risk and Reward
Guest blogger Fay examines why adolescents may be at greater risk of developing gambling problems if not given the right support and information.
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Safer Internet Day – Giving Young People the Facts about Gambling
Tuesday 6th February 2018 was Safer Internet Day. Guest blogger Megan takes a look at how GamCare’s Youth Outreach programme can support young people to navigate their online lives more safely.
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