Gambling Harms

• To establish a collaborative peer environment that supports efforts to address Gambling Related Harms and reduce health inequalities in the North East of England.
• To bring together Local Authority and Public Health stakeholders across the North East to facilitate planning to address common programme priorities as part of a one system approach.

• Consult with stakeholders to identify and agree priorities on behalf of North East Directors of Public Health and report on progress.
• Identify best practice, developing areas of work and support evidence-base development and implementation at place within capacity restraints.
• Provide a collective voice, advocating on behalf of the agenda.
• Maximise the interface with national, North East groups and stakeholders; providing a point of consultation, information and advice, enabling opportunity for discussion around the local authority perspective.
• Share national guidance, evidence and regional and local developments as well as knowledge and intelligence updates.
• Promote and endorse the ADPH Statement on Protecting the public from being harmed or exploited by gambling and the gambling industry, published June 2022.

DPH Lead & Sponsor – Sarah Bowman-Abouna, Stockton-On-Tees

Chair – Chris Woodcock, Consultant in Public Health, North Tyneside

Specialist support – Glyn Smith, Health and Wellbeing Programme Manager, OHID

Mobilisation of the regional gambling related harms programme, initiate work to include:-

• supporting areas to conduct needs assessments where not performed
• supporting areas to implement findings identified in their needs assessments

Facilitation of a North East response to the Gambling White Paper Consultations

CPD webinar series in conjunction with sister programmes in Yorkshire & Humber and Greater Manchester, themes to be included:

• Communications
• Commercial Determinants of Health
• Gambling harms and the role of licensing teams