Annette Brooke, children's spokeswoman for the party, launched new proposals to improve child protection last week.
She told the party's annual conference in Bournemouth that professionals should experience working in a variety of settings, as part of training and development to improve joint working.
She said: "A social worker could spend three months working in the health service, you could have a housing officer working in social care or the police."
Brooke wants the move to be funded by the money that would be saved by abolishing the ContactPoint database.
But Kim Bromley-Derry, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, warned that scrapping ContactPoint to fund secondments "is not the answer".
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