The centre, set up by the charity Ecpat UK (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), will offer training to workers across children's services, the legal profession and the travel industry.
Ecpat training manager Karen Sizeland will manage the centre near Victoria station in London, said the government's human trafficking strategy, published this summer, falls short on support for child victims.
She said the plan focused too much on border control and "failed to address the complex nature of child trafficking and the fact that many of the perpetrators of violence and sexual abuse are already living here in the UK".
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