The call was made as part of evidence given to an education select committee inquiry into child protection arrangements.
Among those to give evidence in the two-hour session was Colin Walker, deputy director of End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT UK).
He said a key concern is that council accommodation and care for victims of child trafficking is not safe enough, and too many traffickers and abusers are still able to get access to their victims.
"It is critical that they are moved into a location that breaks the relationship between them and their trafficker," Walker said.
He added: "There are problems at the moment when a child is moved into accommodation that may not be secure enough and leaves them vulnerable to being re-trafficked or may be in the same area where they are being trafficked into.
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