{"id":161931,"date":"2025-12-01T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161931\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:47:07","slug":"five-london-councils-urge-mayor-to-ban-tube-gambling-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161931\/","title":{"rendered":"Five London councils urge mayor to ban Tube gambling ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Prochaska, Director of CEGA said: “It’s inspiring to see councils stepping up to protect the health of their populations where national government is still wanting. <\/p>\n

“Councils across the UK are recognising that gambling is a public health crisis fuelled by relentless advertising.<\/p>\n

“By joining this coalition, they’re standing up for their communities and sending a clear message. It’s time to stop allowing companies to profit from promoting harmful products. We urge others to follow their lead.”<\/p>\n

Cllr Chris Kennedy, Hackney Council cabinet member for health, said: “Hackney Council takes a ‘health in all policies’ approach to everything we do. <\/p>\n

“Gambling related harm is well documented but not well recognised as it is often a highly stigmatised form of damage in the lives of some of our\u202fmost deprived citizens.”<\/p>\n

Responding to a question , external<\/a>by the Greens on the London Assembly in February, the mayor said he hoped the government would provide a “national framework addressing this issue, including providing a national definition of harmful gambling advertising.<\/p>\n

“I intend to allow government to conclude this work before looking further at any implications for TfL’s policy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Prochaska, Director of CEGA said: “It’s inspiring to see councils stepping up to protect the health of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-161931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}