The French National Union of Family Associations (UNAF), the gambling regulator ANJ and the Bank of France have developed a gambling-awareness training module for social workers. Training for Bank of France staff is now underway ahead of the module’s autumn rollout to social workers.
Multiple Bank of France branches will deliver the training to social workers nationwide through the bank’s EDUCFI financial education programme.
The three bodies worked on the module throughout 2026, pooling their respective expertise. The resulting module was tested with several local UNAF-affiliated family associations (UDAFs).
UNAF highlighted that France has more than one million problem gamblers. This is why the association focuses on prevention and identifying problematic gambling practices.
A study released in February and conducted by the Association for Research and Prevention of Excessive Gambling (ARPEJ), in collaboration with the ANJ, examined underage gambling.
It found that in 2025, approximately four out of ten young people had participated in gambling, representing a 7.8% increase compared with the findings of the 2021 survey.
In May this year, the ANJ introduced a new algorithm for licensed operators to better detect excessive gambling behaviour. The tool is designed to strengthen the early identification of at-risk players, as the regulator warned that existing monitoring systems remain largely insufficient.
France’s gambling market generated €14.1bn ($15.9bn) in GGR in 2025, up 3% year-on-year. Online gambling revenue reached €2.62bn, up 8.5%, and accounted for 18.5% of total market revenue compared with 12.8% in 2019.
Online sports betting remained the main growth driver. Revenue from the segment rose 10.4% to €1.77bn, while stakes increased 12% to €11.52bn.
Around 90,000 excessive gamblers were identified by French operators in 2025, while the ANJ estimates the real figure exceeds 600,000
