Jack’s gambling addiction started when he was a teenager, placing bets with his dinner money on his lunch breaks at school.
In the days leading up to his death, he had been a regular visitor to the BetVictor online gambling site.
He told his parents of his problems with gambling, but they said he was not diagnosed or offered treatment which linked his symptoms to gambling addiction.
Mrs Ritchie and her husband Charles set up a charity called Gambling With Lives, to raise awareness of the harm and suicide risk of gambling.
Mr Ritchie said: “When Jack died, there was just one NHS clinic and there are now 15.
“At the moment these are funded through the NHS budget.
“This will change this, so those will now be funded through this statutory levy and that is a big change.”
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