The group, which is the membership body for NHS organisations, is concerned about the increase in targets for NHS Trusts for 2003/04, which focus more on children.
Policy manager Janice Miles said: "We welcome the fact that children are moving higher up the agenda for the NHS. But it would be more effective for services to work jointly, because it's not a single department's problem. In the long term, it will provide more effective services."
This would meet the NHS Confederation's other concern that NHS Trusts are overloaded with too many targets.
Acute, specialist, ambulance, mental health and primary care trusts have a new target for child protection, under performance indicators recently published by the Commission for Health Improvement, the independent regulator for NHS performance.
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