Boardroom: What Balance Should Policymakers Strike Between Education, Protection and Prohibition in an Increasingly Digital World?

To examine, informed by new IRI research into young people’s use of digital platforms and associated risks, whether approaches to prevention need to evolve to reflect how behaviours are formed from an early age, and what this means as those young people transition into adulthood.

• Should prevention start earlier and extend beyond individual products to build resilience and understanding of risk across the wider digital environment?
• As young people transition into the 18–24 age group, what can gambling policy learn from how younger generations already interact with gaming, social media and other digital platforms?
• Who should take responsibility for prevention across this journey, and where should the respective roles of government, educators, families, digital platforms and the gambling industry begin and end?

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