This webinar is designed for anyone who works with children and young people in the borough of Lewisham.

A Young People and Gambling Survey published last October revealed that 11%  of children aged between 11-16 said they had gambled in the previous week, equivalent to about 350,000 children in England, Scotland and Wales. 93% of children in the UK play video games and growing concern over the relationship between gaming, gambling and other risk taking behaviours make the YGAM programme highly relevant.  Reports suggest there has been a significant rise in the amount of time people are playing online during lockdown with weekly games sales increasing by up to 60% and stories of children spending 15 hours a day in front of a screen.

Expected running time is 90 minutes.  Attendees will be sent a link via email to join the webinar.

The session will cover:

• An overview of how young people growing up in a tech-savvy environment are increasingly exposed to gaming and gambling and how these activities have become normalised and part of everyday culture.
• The influence of advertising, particularly around sporting events and how this has drifted across into the online world, so that for many, online and real world are intertwined.
• The role of social media, in game purchases, loot boxes and Esports before unpacking the signs to look out for when an individual is at risk and where to seek help.
• Finally, we discuss our resources that have been developed for practitioners to deliver. These are hands on activities to support purposeful and guided conversations with young people.

 You can learn more about us from our website: http://www.ygam.org.

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