He said the council’s move came at a “critical time” to raise awareness, with major sporting events, such as the Fifa World Cup carrying gambling advertising. <\/p>\n
Bate said he hoped all councils would introduce this type of restriction – if they did not have a similar ban.<\/p>\n
He said his family moved to the county in the 1950s because his father had a bad gambling habit.<\/p>\n
“One of the reasons my mother decided we should move away was to get him away from that gambling culture,” he said. <\/p>\n
“But now with online gambling and TV advertising it is pervasive.”<\/p>\n
He added: “The ban is the only avenue the council has.”<\/p>\n
Last year the council pledged to improve support for problem gamblers following the adoption of a new Gambling Harm Needs Assessment introduced after its collaboration with the University of Glasgow and the University of Sheffield on an in-depth study into the current support available for people who are at increased risk of gambling harms, both nationally and locally.<\/p>\n
It highlighted the groups at a higher risk of facing gambling-related harms included young people, those living in disadvantaged areas, and people from non-white ethnic backgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said the council’s move came at a “critical time” to raise awareness, with major sporting events, such…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-685538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}