The spot checks, which have been dogged by criticism since their inception, were last month dubbed "time-consuming and rigid" by Association of Directors of Children's Services president Kim Bromley-Derry.
The LGA has now compiled a list of councils' concerns as part of a paper on child protection presented to a meeting of its children and young people board last week.
Clive Grimshaw, policy consultant at the LGA, said councils are worried about the terms being used to evaluate their performance and say they have had no guidelines on how to score well in unannounced inspections.
He said: "The terms good, satisfactory, inconsistent and poor are used relatively consistently to identify whether an area is a strength or an area for development. This suggests there are definitions of these terms that inspectors are applying across authorities, and councils should see this definition."
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