As of this week the institute has around 694 members – the same number it had in September 2014, a year after it first launched.
Adam Muirhead, vice-chair of IYW, told CYP Now that the organisation is working to become fully independent from the National Youth Agency by next year.
He said the fact that the IYW remains under the umbrella of the NYA, which was behind setting it up, has held it back.
“The IYW has been held under the NYA and there is an acknowledgement that this has limited what the institute has been able to do,” he said.
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