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GambleAware and Citizens Advice Scotland Launch New Gambling Support Service

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November 16, 2020

Niji Narayan

GambleAware and Citizens Advice Scotland Launch New Gambling Support Service

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GambleAware has partnered with Citizens Advice Scotland to launch a new Gambling Support Service. The new service will offer training for debt advisers and other frontline workers to understand, prevent and reduce gambling-related harm among its users.

Four regional hubs will also be established as part of the project, and will be located in Airdrie, Inverness, South West Aberdeenshire and West Lothian.

These hubs will enable staff across Scotland to deliver training to other frontline workers in other professions who come across people experiencing harm from gambling, such as frontline local authority staff, youth practitioners and healthcare workers.

The programme, which will run between 2020 and 2022, will run alongside the “constitutionally distinct” programme in Citizens Advice England and Wales, with the separate initiatives working closely to support one another.

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Niji Narayan

Niji Narayan has been in the writing industry for well over a decade or so. He prides himself as one of the few survivors left in the world who have actually mastered the impossible art of copy editing. Niji graduated in Physics and obtained his Master’s degree in Communication and Journalism. He has always interested in sports writing and travel writing. He has written for numerous websites and his in-depth analytical articles top sports magazines like Cricket Today and Sports Today. He reports gaming industry headlines from all around the globe.