Education & Training
Education & Training
At Breakeven, we offer specialised Gambling Awareness Training which is designed to upskill or train staff about how best to either help or identify people suffering gambling related harm.
Bet You Can Help
The ‘Bet You Can Help’ (BYCH) training programme aims to educate learners, using an accredited, uniform, and consistent set of messaging regarding Gambling Related Harms (GRH) and the associated issues, through an ethos that emphasises a Public Health Approach.
A fundamental aspect of the programme utilises a first aid methodology that supports learners to competently implement an early brief intervention with anyone at risk of, or experiencing, gambling harms, and how to signpost to specialist service providers.
The programme seeks to prevent a worsening or escalation of the individual’s gambling harms situation. This is done through a developed understanding of the issue, developing confidence in supporting individuals and ultimately by guiding and signposting people in accessing appropriate specialist services.
The programme is offered FREE to services engaging with our identified key target groups. Anyone interested in this course who is not specifically engaging with our target groups, please contact drew@breakeven.org.uk for more information.
Programme Collaborators
The programme is accredited by The Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) and is evaluated by Gambling Research Exchange Ontario (GREO). The qualification was developed in collaboration with a number of experts in this field and from the Gambling Health Alliance, including Beacon Counselling Trust, Unite the Union and the Addiction Recovery Agency.
Workplace Charter
This Workplace Charter provides a framework for action to help employers and staff build good practice in health and work in their organisation. The charter supports all types of employers, large and small, from public, private and voluntary sectors.
Harmful gambling can be the causes of, and contributors to, short and long term ill health for a considerable proportion of people of working age. For example, it is estimated that there are in the region of 1.3 million harmful gamblers in the UK and with many times that number experiencing gambling related harms.
This charter offers practical, evidence-based ways in which employers and staff can commit to promoting the health and wellbeing of their workers experiencing gambling related harms. It endeavors to help reduce sickness and absence and support those who want or need to change their relationship with gambling.
Employees are the lifeblood of any organisation. Their health and wellbeing are central to its sustainability. An organisation that supports its employees to make healthier choices and overcome problems with their gambling behaviour is more likely to prosper, through higher productivity, improved staff retention and improved performance.
The business case for supporting employees to make healthier choices relative to harmful gambling is compelling.
A healthier workforce has a positive impact on the productivity and sustainability of organisations. It also benefits society as a whole, by reducing health and social care costs, and the human costs of ill health.
Harmful gambling makes a considerable contribution to workplace absence. This has a significant cost to business and the economy. The economic burden of harmful gambling is substantial, with estimates placing the annual cost in the UK to be over £1.27 billion.
We require an emphasis on addressing gambling harms as a public health issue and a safeguarding concern.
“Gambling Related Harms goes wider than the impact on the individual and covers the adverse impacts from gambling on the Health and Wellbeing of individuals, families, communities and society.
We would encourage employers and employees to support this charter and work collaboratively to help address gambling related harms at a workplace level.”
Gambling Commission
The Workplace Charter to Reduce Gambling Related Harms Kitemark
Organisations who commit to the workplace charter are granted permission, licensed, and certified to display the workplace charter to reduce gambling related harms kitemark. Once licensed, subject to the terms and conditions of use, organisations are permitted to use the kitemark on their website, publications, emails, and signage. The kitemark is awarded to organisations in recognition of their pledge and commitment to support their employees, who may be at risk of, or experiencing gambling related harms (GRH).
