The Engage team brings together council workers, Lancashire Constabulary, sexual health charity Brook and drug and alcohol charity Lifeline. Engage will use its mix of skills to find sex offenders and provide support and protection to victims and their families.
Laurence Loft, chair of Lancashire Safeguarding Children's Board, said: "Anyone with a concern or suspicion of sex grooming now has a single point of contact to hand over crucial information.
"By putting different agencies around the table we will be able to put in place everything to achieve protection, prevention and prosecution."
Engage began work last week at a training session on identifying the warning signs of sexual exploitation for school staff and other children's and youth professionals.
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