The joint report by family doctors and the NSPCC said there was a large gap between cases of child mistreatment in the community and the proportion of cases identified in social care.
As a first point of contact for families GPs are ideally placed to work with other professionals to act on early warning signs of child neglect and emotional abuse, said the report by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the NSPCC and academics from UCL and the University of Surrey.
The report suggests that early intervention by GPs could lead to a fall in the number of families in the child protection system.
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