The lines between video-gaming and gambling have become blurred, representing a distinct safeguarding risk for our young people. Anna Harper discusses the role of education in addressing the problem.
According to the Online Gaming Statistics survey (Uswitch, 2023), 91% of UK children aged 3 to 15 play games on some type of digital device.
The most common age for online gamers is 12 to 15 – 76% of this age group said that they played online games, with consoles being the leading gaming device (59%).
Other findings include that 61% of children own a smartphone device by the age of 10 and more than half also play online games using a mobile phone.
