The Gambling Commission has announced the establishment of a permanent ‘Lived Experience Panel’, which will provide advice, evidence, and recommendation to inform decision-making and raise standards.

The panel will provide the Gambling Commission with independent advice based on personal lived experience of gambling harms. The Lived Experience Panel will join the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling and the Digital Advisory Panel as a formal group who advise the regulator.

This comes at a time when the UK government is calling for evidence for convene a formal review of the Gambling Act (2005), which will, among other topics, review the role of the Gambling Commission in effectively regulating the UK gambling industry considering the development of online gambling since the act was passed into law.