Liberal Democrat spokeswoman for children Annette Brooke will tomorrow set out her party's proposals for safeguarding children in her second Protecting Our Children policy paper.
Speaking at a fringe event ahead of the paper's launch, she told delegates that compulsory secondments would benefit the whole children's workforce.
She said: "A social worker for example could spend three months working in the health service, you could have a housing officer working in social care or the police. That should become part of continuous professional development. Rather than having complicated databases wouldn't it be better to get people talking to each other?"
Brooke claimed that money saved from scrapping the ContactPoint database could fund the secondments programme, as well as freeing up extra cash to help support social workers.
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