The Department of Community Development in Abu Dhabi has announced the opening of registration in the database of social welfare establishments and all social welfare providers in Abu Dhabi for five functional categories, including: social worker, psychologist outside the health sector, social counselor and welfare officer. The psychosocial therapist indicated that she has activated the system of registering professionals, establishments and social welfare providers, in order to collect information on the current situation, while serving the development of a comprehensive vision of the social services provided in the emirate and working to improve them.
In detail, the Department explained to the Emirates Today that the Department of Social Welfare Quality is working to develop the regulations and standards for social welfare facilities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the professionals working in this field, through the design of standards and licensing requirements, to enable the concerned welfare providers Obtain a license to practice in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The Department pointed out that the current stage of registration is an important opportunity for social welfare providers (professionals and establishments) in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which will enable them to participate in the development of standards and requirements for licensing, by providing the Department with the correct data, which reflects the reality of the social welfare market in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi, enabling management to set realistic licensing requirements and ensure continuity in the provision of social welfare services.
She pointed out that registration is available to all social welfare service providers (and other related services), professionals and establishments in the public and private sectors and the third sector (non-governmental public utility institutions), working in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, noting that registration procedures will not affect any professional licenses. Other, in the possession of the registrants.
The Department excluded occupations: physiotherapist, occupational therapist, therapeutic psychologist, speech therapist, nurse, and special needs teacher from registration because they are not considered social welfare professions, while obliging social welfare workers in the health, educational or academic sector, government and private, Sign up.
The Department identified four categories of social care facilities to be registered, including care and treatment facilities, which provide some social care services, in which the user spends a number of hours to receive temporary care services, support and accommodation facilities that provide temporary or permanent accommodation services to beneficiaries, and community service facilities that are carried out. In addition to the digital and telephone facilities that are provided electronically or by telephone.
The Department stressed the importance of the information that will be provided by the registration processes, which will be used in the study of the current situation in the Emirate, which contributes to the process of developing and developing specifications and standards for licensing, and the provision of high-quality social services.
Benefits of registration
The Department of Community Development - Abu Dhabi has confirmed that the purpose of registration is to create a modern database of professionals and establishments working in the field of social welfare in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and to ensure that workers in this area comply with the required standards, in addition to understand the current situation of the needs of the community, in addition to work to complete a project Licensing, which will take the social welfare field to a new stage of maturity in performance and delivery of required services.
4
Categories, from social welfare establishments, have a duty to be registered.