UAE: Abu Dhabi calls on social care professionals to obtain official licences

The Department of Community Development (DCD) has called on all social care professionals to obtain a licence to practise the profession. This comes as part of DCD's role in regulating the social sector in Abu Dhabi in accordance with the emirate's laws.

This is part of the department's efforts to regulate the social care sector. The department works to apply the penalties against violators of the licensing regulations, based on the Administrative Violations and Fines Schedule for Social Care Professionals in Abu Dhabi.

Saeed Mubarak bin Amro, Manager of Social Control Division at DCD, said: "Since its inception of licensing social care professionals and adoption of licensing standards, the department has organised several awareness workshops for social care service providers, to highlight the role played by the department in regulating and licensing workers in the field of social care.

"It has also developed professional diplomas in cooperation with the UAE University to qualify and raise the efficiency of professionals in the social sector as part of the support plan. In addition to that, the department has organised competency tests available at multiple testing centres, both locally and globally. It has also automated licensing procedures to be submitted through the 'Tamm' platform, the official electronic platform for Abu Dhabi government services."