The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development specified in the Social Professions Practice Law and its implementing regulations the fees required to be paid to obtain a license to practice social professions.
Applicants to obtain the license must pay the written test fee of 150 riyals, the oral test fee of 100 riyals, the license issuance fee of 150 riyals, the license renewal fee of 150 riyals, and the renewal of the expired license fee of 300 riyals.
The Ministry stipulated that the applicant for a professional license for the purpose of practicing one of the approved social professions must meet the academic qualification approved by the entity, fulfill the practical experience required by the entity, pass the professional test, personal capabilities, and professional classification, and the entity issues evidence, standards and procedural controls related to professional licenses, and meets development standards. Continuing professional and standards of good conduct.
The Law for the Practice of Social Professions and its Implementing Regulations, whose final draft was reviewed by Okaz, revealed that the project aims to organize and develop the field of social work, structuring social professions, and improving social practice in the field by defining social specializations and basic criteria for occupational classification to issue professional classification and licenses for social practitioners, and develop their capabilities, protect the beneficiaries, and contribute to achieving the strategic direction through alignment with the international and local strategic directions.
The social practitioner is also not entitled to practice a group of approved social professions without permission from the entity, or in accordance with the limits of the scope of the validity of the license, or based on a subsequent request submitted by the licensee to the competent committee in the entity.
The new system imposed their registration in the registry of the data of practitioners of social professions working in the governmental, private and non-profit sectors, and obligated practitioners of social professions in governmental, private and non-profit sectors to apply for licenses, which are limited to the full license, the temporary license and the restricted license.
