The initiative aims to provide a comfortable, safe environment for young people where they will receive medical, social care and therapeutic support in one place.
Police will also use the house to carry out interviews with victims and gather evidence in a more child-friendly environment, which has been designed in consultation with young people.
Currently young victims of sexual abuse face multiple interviews across a number of different, sometimes unfriendly, locations and can also struggle to access support, the NSPCC, which is involved in providing support at the house, said.
It added that co-locating support and evidence gathering also reduces the trauma children face having to repeat their story several times to different agencies.
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