Lifelong Learning UK will consult the sector on the appropriateness of the licence, alongside a series of consultation events to be held in late spring and early summer.
Maureen O'Mara, standards and qualifications officer at Lifelong Learning UK, said: "This might be the right time to look at a licence to practise. We might be looking at different levels (of licence). But this is not an uncontroversial issue."
Junior youth minister Maria Eagle last week told a conference that licensing was "important to consider".
O'Mara said a licence for youth workers may begin as a registration system, with different levels of registration according to qualification levels.
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