The register, plans for which were announced in the Institute's five-year strategy launched in January, will include details of the qualifications held by individual youth workers.
Institute chair Adam Muirhead said he hopes the register will be piloted by the end of the year, although details are still being finalised with the support of other youth work bodies.
In addition to being open to practitioners with a professional qualification in youth and community work, the register will be available to those working with young people in voluntary roles.
Muirhead said the register is primarily about recognising and raising professional standards of youth work while at the same time "being supportive of the rich diversity of ways that youth work is practiced".
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