A report by the association on how local authorities are tacklingpoverty warns that restrictive targets are impairing flexibility.
It also calls for more long-term funding for local authority schemesthat reduce child poverty.
Conservative councillor Alison King, chair of the association's childrenand young people board, said: "No childhood should be blighted bypoverty and local authorities have a real contribution to make. TheGovernment has offered some useful new opportunities for localauthorities in the Children Act 2004, but we need the time and resourcesto explore them properly.
"Local government should be free to adapt more flexibly to localconditions. Targets should be replaced by frameworks that allow greatermovement. And ideas that work should be given the longer-term fundingthey need to really make a difference."
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