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5 Live Investigates: Children Targeted by Gambling Ads

09/09/2018

Children Targeted by Gambling Ads

BBC Radio 5 Live - 5 Live Investigates, Children Targeted by Gambling Ads

Gambling ads are targeting children on football club websites

The Advertising Standards Authority is investigating after 5 live Investigates reveals that professional football clubs have included links to gambling websites on junior web pages

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and the Gambling Commission are investigating after 5 live Investigates revealed professional football clubs have included links to gambling websites on junior web pages. Programme researchers discovered 15 clubs in the Premier League, the Championship, League One and the Scottish Professional Football League were in breach of ASA guidelines. Some of the clubs involved have since removed the links. Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield described the findings as 'hugely surprising.' She has also called for education around gambling to made part of the national curriculum in schools. And the parents of Jack Ritchie, who started gambling as a schoolboy, reveal how their son killed himself after becoming addicted to online betting websites.

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