The committee's report on the children bill, released last week, said the 2.5m budget seemed inadequate compared with the other UK commissioners - 1.9m in Northern Ireland, 1.2m in Scotland and 1.3m in Wales. England has more than four times as many children as the three countries combined.
The committee also said the role of commissioner should be more powerful and include the words "young people" in its title.
Other concerns include making organisations contracted by public authorities directly accountable for safeguarding children and the exclusion of immigration and asylum agencies from joint working arrangements. The report also said information-sharing proposals in the bill may infringe young people's privacy rights.
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