The analytical report from the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit Disability Project said that services for disabled children were currently based on a "postcode lottery", and that early years social care and therapy wasn't always available.
There was also a lack of information sharing and co-ordination among service providers, it said. The unit will use the evidence to try to improve outcomes for disabled people.
The Disability Rights Commission said that over a period of decades, society had not been "sufficiently vigilant" over the quality of care provided for disabled children.
It is lobbying for the Children Bill to include a duty for children's services to give disabled and disadvantaged children equal opportunities, particularly in child protection arrangements.
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