A pilot scheme aimed at tacking gambling addiction in young people is to be trialled at schools in Northern Ireland.
he programme, set up by a charity formed by parents who have been bereaved by gambling related suicide, is hoping to deliver a hard hitting message directly to school pupils, and will begin in Northern Ireland and England before being rolled out across the rest of the UK.
The scheme will be officially launched at Stormont on Tuesday by those involved in the charity, Gambling With Lives.
Created by experts on gambling harm, academics, teachers, award-winning filmmakers and people with lived experience of gambling harm, the charity is hoping to influence the way gambling awareness education is delivered to young people and …
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