The Royal College of General Practitioners met Margaret Hodge for the first time last Tuesday, nine months after the publication of the Every Child Matters green paper, which urged better partnership working between GPs, social services and education departments.
Social care professionals saw the delay as another sign that children are not high enough on the agenda of health professionals.
Professor David Haslam, chair of the college's council, said: "We felt it was important to have this preliminary meeting with Margaret Hodge as the minister for children, because GPs have such a central role in the care of children and in issues such as child protection.
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