Financial risk assessments get a staged start and a £5,000 first rung
The Gambling Commission's July update puts numbers on the white paper's most contested idea: a high Stage 1 threshold, a much lower endpoint, and two things left undecided.
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White-paper era scorecard, mid-2026
Three years on from the Gambling Act review white paper, an institutional accounting: which reforms have actually landed, and which are still working through the machinery.
Safer Gambling Week, assessed
The industry's annual awareness campaign, reviewed as a product: what it demonstrably delivers, what it measures, and the debate about whether awareness weeks change anything.
Where should settlement money go?
The Gambling Commission is consulting on the destination of regulatory-settlement funds now that the statutory levy exists. The quiet question underneath: what is settlement money for?
GamStop, reviewed as consumer-protection infrastructure
The national online self-exclusion scheme, assessed the way we'd assess any piece of infrastructure: coverage, failure modes, and who carries the friction.