Cost of living: Why are more women turning to gambling?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A third of those calls are now from women.
On the Sky News Daily, Kimberley Leonard speaks to former gambler Lisa Walker about her story, who now works as a peer support worker for the charity BetKnowMore and runs their women-only programme New Beginnings.
Also, Lisa Patton, a treatment service manager at the charity GamCare, explains how people get into gambling and what’s being done to help.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're opening up more of London for everyone with step-free access. |
| 0:05.0 | We're continuing to improve accessibility at many of our stations, |
| 0:08.0 | and now over 200 stations and counting have step-free access, |
| 0:13.0 | including the entire Elizabeth Line, DLR and all tram stops. |
| 0:17.0 | That is how we're making the greener way to travel more accessible to all. |
| 0:21.7 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:27.2 | Greener than total estimated petrol and diesel car emissions. |
| 0:30.2 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:34.4 | Fine, she'd say. She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:42.3 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.8 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in. |
| 0:55.0 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:56.6 | Train others. |
| 0:57.7 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 1:05.9 | We carry a casino around in our pockets 24-7. |
| 1:11.9 | Pandemic lockdowns and the cost of living crisis have driven more people to gambling |
| 1:16.5 | to help ease financial struggles, with helplines receiving record-breaking calls for help. |
| 1:23.2 | More than 400,000 British gamblers lose at least £2,000 a year. |
| 1:29.5 | So 75% of our callers are actually citing financial difficulties. |
| 1:35.2 | And an increasing number of women are turning to betting. |
| 1:38.5 | They make up a third of the callers to the National Gambling Helpline. |
| 1:42.6 | Gambling costs me my house, so I ended up homeless, lost everything. |
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