The initiative, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), the Royal College of Nursing and the NHS, will survey the children's nursing workforce.
Simon Lenton, vice president of health services for the RCPCH, said research was still being scoped and followed concerns about the length of time - 12 years - it took to train paediatricians.
He said the study would clarify the potential role of children's nurses and the size of the workforce required to support it by examining current staff levels and projected future figures.
He said the research findings would help to make a case to primary care trusts to commission more children's nursing places, and to develop more advanced practitioner roles for nurses, such as larger mental health roles for school nurses.
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