Dr Tina Ambury, children's spokeswoman for the Royal College of General Practitioners, said all children's practitioners, including GPs, were "getting behind the idea that there has to be information sharing in order to protect children".
But she said information sharing had to be sensitive, "working within the boundaries of trusting relationships".
She was speaking after a report criticised GPs' willingness to get involved with the 10 trailblazer councils piloting information-sharing systems.
GPs, "with one or two exceptions", could not be drawn in to the pilots, claimed researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London.
But Ambury said there had been an "awful lot of concern" among GPs contacted by trailblazers about what data was accessible and by what people.
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