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3rd Welsh National Conference on EXCESSIVE GAMBLING WALES 17 21 June 2017 9.30 - 15.30 Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay Sponsored by AM Chaired by Wynford Ellis Owen (CEO, LRC)

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN WHO SHOULD ATTEND TOP SPEAKERS FROM Excessive Gambling Wales 17 will Excessive Gambling Wales 17 provide an understanding of current will be of interest to the following: challenges and trends tackling • Addiction psychiatrists addictive behaviour and gambling as • General practitioners well as current and emerging treatment • Community nurses and management strategies and how • Specialist nurses in psychiatry & they might apply to Wales. addiction • Substance misuse leads • Drug and alcohol rehabilitation specialists • Social workers • Mental health workers • General psychiatrists • Child and adolescent psychiatrists + • All trainees in these disciplines MORE • Anyone with an interest in addiction

Dr. Frank Atherton Prof. Rebecca Jac Symons Carolyn Harris MP Prof. Simon Dymond Chief Medical Officer for Cassidy Co-founder & CEO, Shadow Home Affairs Prof. of Psychology, Wales, Head of Department, gamban® Minister & Swansea East MP Swansea University Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London +MORE To book your place: Call us on 029 2049 3895 or email us at [email protected] or visit http://www.livingroom-cardiff.com/gamblingwales/booknow.html EXCESSIVE GAMBLING WALES 2017 Welcome to the Living Room Cardiff’s third conference on excessive gambling.

We are delighted to host this gathering of people who are committed to making a difference in the lives of others and to also honour a number of distinguished keynote speakers to share their expertise with us in excessive gambling treatment and prevention. £675 Our focus at this conference is on the many of us who PER ADULT HEAD SPENT ON deliver support services, education and prevention FIXED ODDS BETTING programmes to those in need. How can we make helping TERMINALS IN WALES services for gambling more visible and responsive?

The aim is to enhance our knowledge and skills in this area, share experiences and ideas and to enhance our efforts to address excessive gambling in Wales and to help inform a debate on how a nation-wide service to help excessive gamblers should be implemented. We look forward to enjoying a rewarding and stimulating conference with you. 1500 Access to gambling has never been easier – either on the FIXED ODDS BETTING high street or via a computer or television. With some 1,500 TERMINALS IN WALES FOBT (fixed odds betting terminals) machines in Wales, the average staked on each machine is just over £1,000,000 per year or about £3,000 per day, resulting in a pre-tax profit per machine of £34,000.

Gambling is not a new phenomenon, but excessive gambling in Wales is on the increase. Gambling can affect people from all walks of life. Figures for England and Wales show that almost 2% of the adult male population can now £1m be classified as Pathological Gamblers. Gambling problems can lead to incredibly tough emotional, financial and ON AVERAGE STAKED ON psychological issues which are not easy to spot until it gets EACH TERMINAL EACH YEAR too much for the individual in question.

Many people who struggle with gambling don’t reach out for help until they’re in a crisis situation. Recent research suggest that only 10 per cent of people with gambling problems seek formal help.

This conference is intended to raise awareness of the “need to tackle Wales’ serious gambling problem and find lasting solutions. WYNFORD ELLIS OWEN ” CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LIVING ROOM CARDIFF

The pioneering Beat the Odds initiative is a collaboration negative impacts for individuals, families and communities. between one of the world’s leading gambling help services, It is estimated, from research undertaken by the Victorian The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, in North Responsible Gambling Foundation that around 20-30% of Melbourne, Australia, and community based recovery Australian punters are classified as problem gamblers, who centre Living Room Cardiff. in turn account for as much as 50-60% of all money spent. In Wales the population spends £1.6billion a year on As in Wales, problem gambling in Australia is increasingly gambling. recognised as an important public health issue with

WWW.LIVINGROOM-CARDIFF.COM CONFERENCE TIMETABLE EXCESSIVE WEDNESDAY 21ST JUNE 2017 GAMBLING WALES 2017 09.00 REGISTRATION & NETWORKING 09.30 Chairman's Introduction & Housekeeping Wynford Ellis Owen CEO, The aim of the conference Living Room Cardiff is to build on the success 09.35 Sponsors Opening Address Darren Millar AM of last year’s inaugural SESSION 1 - GAMBLING & ITS IMPACT conference by bringing leading researchers, 09.40 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Frank Atherton, Welsh Government addiction specialists, 10.00 Gambling Research: What do we need to know? Prof. Rebecca Cassidy, practitioners, politicians, Goldsmiths University policy makers and service 10.20 Addiction, Identity & Recovery Dr. Tim Leighton, Action on Addiction users together to identify 10.40 NETWORKING, EXHIBITION & REFRESHMENT BREAK best-practice and share knowledge and experience SESSION 2 - GAMBLING ADDICTION & RESEARCH regarding the latest 11.20 Why don’t (some) gamblers learn the value of losing gambling games? findings relating to And what can we do about it? Prof. Robert Rogers, Bangor University excessive gambling. 11.40 The Growth of Gambling Sponsorship and Marketing in Football Prof. , Cardiff Metropolitan University Since the 2015 conference the Beat the Odds initiative 12.00 Protection in a Digital Age: How Technology Can Help Combat Gambling has undertaken consid- Related Harm Jac Symons, Gamban erable outreach work and 12.20 AVM Ray Lock CBE, Forces in Mind Trust Chief Executive introduced by research regarding the Professor Simon Dymond, Department of Psychology, Swansea University scale of excessive 12.20 Launch of findings from the Veterans in Gambling Research Project, in gambling in Wales. It is partnership with Forces in Mind Trust and Swansea University currently providing support Professor Simon Dymond & Elystan Roberts, Swansea University for over 48 excessive 12.45 LUNCH gamblers who have sought help as part of their 13.15 MPs Question Time: What can the National Assembly do to counter recovery. excessive gambling in Wales? Jenny Rathbone AM, Darren Millar AM, AM, Simon Thomas AM. SESSION 3 - WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? 14.00 What Does the Future Hold? Carolyn Harris MP, Labour 14.10 Experience, strength and hope of excessive gamblers. Tony Franklin 14.30 Experience, strength and hope of excessive gamblers. Sarah Grant 14.50 Panel Discussion: How Can We Ensure Responsible Gambling Succeeds? Jac Symons, Tony Franklin, Sarah Grant, Rebecca Cassidy. Chaired by Clive Woolfendale, CAIS 15.10 Conference Roundup: Wynford Ellis Owen CEO, Living Room Cardiff 15.30 END REGISTRATION Yes I would like to reserve my space at the Excessive Please return to Living Room Cardiff 58 Richmond Gambling Wales Conference 2016 Road, Cardiff CF24 3AT or call 029 2049 3895

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Between 2002 and 2012, Frank vibrant gambling research culture. his early teens when he first played was Director of Public Health in She is currently Head of fruit machines in seaside North Lancashire. Between 2008 Department of the Anthropology amusement arcades. Over the and 2012, he also served as Department at Goldsmiths, years he estimate to have lost President of the UK Association of University of London. more than £1 million on electronic Directors of Public Health. gambling machines whether online Fair Game can be accessed here: casino or fixed odds betting As Chief Medical Officer for Wales, http://www.gold.ac.uk/gamblingine terminals in the betting shops. The Mick Antoniw AM Dr Atherton is responsible for urope/report/ consequences of this addiction Labour, Pontypridd providing independent professional have been devastating and far advice to the First Minister, the reaching and have impacted on his Mick Antoniw was elected to the Health & Social Services Minister family and closest friends all of National Assembly for Wales in the and the cabinet on health and whom have in some way been elections of May 2011. He was public health matters, with the aim caught up in the chaos of his formerly one of Wales’ leading of improving health and reducing gambling addiction and harmful labour lawyers and was a senior health inequalities. As Medical behaviours Tony is actively partner with Thompsons and Director of NHS Wales, he leads campaigning for changes in the practised for over 30 years the medical profession in Wales, laws on gambling and to raise the achieving a number of landmark which will involve having a key role Prof. Simon Dymond public awareness of the gambling legal successes in the field of in medical regulation, education Professor in Psychology, industry’s exploitation of the occupational disease and and training, standards and Swansea University population of the United Kingdom. corporate manslaughter . He has performance. (and the World). He has worked / lectured widely in the field of health Dr Simon Dymond is Professor in collaborated on campaigns across and safety, law reform and appears Psychology at Swansea University, Europe including Slovakia, Czech, regularly on radio and TV. where has been since 2005. He Austria and Italy. obtained his PhD in 1996 from Over the past two years he has University College Cork, Ireland provided a regular legal advice and has held positions at Bangor programme on gtfm community University and Anglia Ruskin radio. He is a trustee of the Bevan University. He is Director of the Foundation social justice think Experimental Psychopathology Lab tank, a trustee of the Welsh (http://dymondlab.org) which Refugee Council and vice Prof. Rebecca adopts a cognitive neuroscience president of the Brynsadler Cassidy perspective to investigate human Community Trust in Pontyclun. Head of Department learning and emotion systems Sarah Grant Mick is married with three adopted Anthropology underpinning adaptive and Problem Gambler children and is a former foster Goldsmiths, Uni. of London maladaptive behaviour. He has parent. extensive research interest in the Sarah has a serious gambling Rebecca Cassidy is a social analysis of gambling behaviour, addiction. By playing online she anthropologist who has worked for particularly in simulated slot successfully managed to hide her CONFERENCE many years on horse racing, horse machine design and the effects of addiction from those who knew her KEYNOTE SPEAKER breeding and gambling. Her early “almost winning” on gambling for over 15 years. However, being work focused on kinship, class and persistence, and in population- convicted and sent to prison for a gender in the horse racing cultures wide surveys of gambling related crime she committed to feed her of Newmarket and Kentucky. Her problems in vulnerable addiction was the first time friends recent work, including a European populations. and family were made aware of the Research Council project which scale of her gambling addiction. took place between 2010 and She is now seeking help at Living 2015, used ethnographic fieldwork Room Cardiff to deal with her to explore gambling across addiction. Dr. Frank Atherton conceptual and territorial borders. Chief Medical Officer for She is also interested in the ethics Wales, welsh Government of gambling research. She is co- author, with Claire Loussouarn and Dr Atherton, who is originally from Andrea Pisac, of Fair Game, an Lancashire, is currently Deputy open access report published in Tony Franklin Chief Medical Officer of Health in 2014, which used interviews with Problem Gambler the Department of Health and 109 executives, researchers, policy Wellness in Nova Scotia, Canada, makers and treatment providers to Tony Franklin, has struggled with a post he has held since 2012. argue for a more transparent and electronic gambling addiction since

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Carolyn Harris MP Dr. Tim Leighton Jenny Rathbone AM Jac Symons Labour, Swansea East Director of Professional Labour, Cardiff Central Co-founder & CEO, gamban® Education and Research, Member of Parliament for Swansea Action on Addiction Jenny Rathbone was elected to the Following a degree in management East. Shadow Home Office Fire and National Assembly in May 2011 at the University of Surrey, Jack Communities Minister. Carolyn was Tim Leighton came to work for after defeating the Liberal worked as a freelance business born in the constituency of Swansea Clouds as a counsellor in 1985, Democrats in the Cardiff Central development manager for a East which she now represents in and in 1987 was sent to Hazelden seat. In May 2016, she increased number of clients across digital, Parliament. She attended Swansea in Minnesota to look at their her majority by over 2,000 per cent. offshore localisation and UK University from 1994-1998 and addiction counsellor training manufacturing. Alongside this, he studied a joint degree in Social programmes in order to develop a Jenny attends PACT meetings started a technology company, History and Social Policy. course suitable for British around the constituency to make using video as a means to simplify counsellors in the field. In 1988 he sure the Police and candidate screening in the Following university, Harris worked began to teach a one year are working effectively with the recruitment space. Having for Swansea based community certificate course at Clouds which community to cut down crime and experienced his own battle with projects such as the Guiding Hand developed into an externally tackle anti-social behaviour. gambling addiction, Jack wanted to Association and then the Joshua validated Further Education create ‘light-touch’ software that Foundation. Before her political Diploma in Addictions Counselling. would help individuals and organi- career she worked as the Parlia- He was also asked to design a sations block the increasingly mentary assistant of her now post-graduate Diploma for United intrusive opportunities to gamble at predecessor Siân James MP. Medical and Dental Schools of home on demand – in the least Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals intrusive way possible. (later part of King’s College London) which ran for several years. He had a long term ambition to create a degree level course and Prof. Robert Rogers this was realised in partnership with Professor, Bangor University the University of Bath with the validation of the Foundation Degree Professor Rogers is a world leading in Addictions Counselling and its expert in the fields of cognitive Prof. Carwyn Jones launch in 2004. Tim has been a control and decision-making, and Professor in Sports Ethics UKCP (UK Council for leads the laboratory in Psychophar- Simon Thomas AM Cardiff School of Sport, Cardiff Psychotherapy) registered macology at Bangor University. In , Ceredigion Metropolitan University Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist recent years, since 1994 and is also an Simon Thomas is a Welsh Plaid Carwyn is a Professor in Sports accredited trainer and supervisor. Professor Rogers has been Cymru politician. He was Member Ethics and leads the Cardiff School Tim was for many years Director of conducting research into the neural of Parliament for Ceredigion from of Sport Welsh medi um provision Clouds’ Professional Education, and neurochemical substrates of 2000 to 2005, after winning the seat as part of the Coleg Cymraeg Training and Research Department emotional (and irrational) decision- at a by-election in January 2000 Cenedlaethol. His main research and he has been the Director of the making in non-social and social caused by the resignation of Plaid interests are in sports ethics in Centre for Addiction Treatment contexts, and has recently Cymru MP Cynog Dafis. In the 2011 general and the relationship Studies since its relaunch and extended this work into the neural Welsh Assembly election he was between sport and alcohol relocation to nearby Warminster in mechanisms underlying psycho- elected as member for Mid and consumption in particular. 2008. logical disorders such as problem West Wales. gambling and bipolar disorder. This He has published numerous includes studying the role of articles in both Welsh and English serotonin and dopamine in shifts covering topics ranging from classi- between risk-seeking and risk- fication in the Paralympics, national averse behaviour, and the neural eligibility rules, gender equality, substrates of cognitive biases in racism and the cultivation of gambling behaviour, such as loss- character through sport. chasing.

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MAIN CONFERENCE END OF CONFERENCE CHAIR DISCUSSION CHAIR END OF CONFERENCE DISCUSSION: BE A PART OF THE EXCESSIVE GAMBLING WALES DISCUSSION Wynford Ellis Owen Clive Wolfendale Living Room Cardiff Centre CEO, CAIS Ltd This years conference will again feature an engaging Head & Chief Executive Office interactive session between the audience and key speakers on the future of gambling problems in Wales. After a 40 years career as a writer, Clive has been Chief Executive of actor and director working in CAIS since 2009, and also Chairs All plenary session speakers are invited to participate in theatre and television, Wynford its subsidiaries, CAIS Social returned to college in 2006 to study the forum and will be chaired by Clive Woolfendale. Enterprises Ltd, the Jigsaw for a Fd.Sc. degree in Addictions Organisation Ltd, and Living Counselling. After graduating in the Key questions to be covered include: summer of 2008, he worked briefly Room Cardiff. as an addictions counsellor in Rhoserchan, the drug and alcohol Previously, Clive was Deputy How can we manage influences of the treatment centre above Chief Constable of North Wales gambling industry in the areas of policy, Penrhyncoch, near Aberystwyth. Police, having transferred from research and service provision for On the 1st of October, 2008 he the Greater Manchester Police started work as Chief Executive where he had served for twenty gambling problems? Officer of the Welsh Council on six years. Throughout his police Alcohol and Other Drugs, and a career he was active in corner-stone of his 3 year strategy How can we improve the health service was the establishment of Stafell developing new approaches to response to gambling problems in Wales? Fyw Caerdydd/Living Room community engagement, Cardiff, a community based diversity and professional Recovery Centre supporting standards. Clive is a trustee and How can we improve the youth people with addiction problems in treasurer of the Nant Gwrtheyrn perceptions of gambling advertisements Cardiff and surrounding areas. He Welsh Language and Cultural was awarded the Winston Churchill Centre, and Company Secretary and problem gambling? Memorial Trust Fellowship for 2010 of the DACW consortium (Drug & and visited some of the new Alcohol Charities Wales). He has recovery community centres in the The role of the gaming industry in served on Welsh Government U.S. which have achieved long- promoting responsible gambling. term recovery from severe alcohol corporate governance and/or drug-related problems. A committees for Finance, network of such centres is to be Education and Skills. What are the social costs of excessive found in Vermont, Connecticut and gambling in Wales? Philadelphia, Washington D C and He is a keen amateur musician, Virginia. Visiting these centres conducting both the Llandudno provided Wynford with very useful Town Band and Llandudno From FOBTs to online Bingo - how do ideas on how to better build a Swing Band. He is Vice women handle excessive gambling? strong “peer culture” into the Stafell President of the Llangollen Fyw Caerdydd/Living Room Cardiff International Eisteddfod project, which was officially opened Crime and addiction problems and on 8th September, 2011. committee, and a member of Cyfeillion Gerdd William Mathias. approaches to the regulation of gambling Wynford is married to Meira, has in Wales. two daughters, Bethan and Rwth, and is a very proud grandfather to Begw, Efa, Bobi and Jac. He lives Gender differences between males and in Creigiau on the outskirts of females in gambling addiction – psycho- Cardiff. logical and social characteristics and Wynford is in recovery and his implications in treatment. sobriety date is 22nd July, 1992.

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