The Refugee Council's children's panel currently works with the Home Office to assess young asylum seekers who arrive in the country without their family.
Funding from the Big Lottery Fund and the Camelot Foundation will set up a team covering the West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside, which will start work next month.
Activities will include one-to-one work with age-disputed young people, as well as helping young people with the asylum process and with access to services.
Jane Dykins, head of the children's section at the Refugee Council, said: "The new team will mean that staff from the South don't have to travel up North each week to carry out surgeries."
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