The Child Poverty Bill contains plans to introduce a local indicator to ensure councils meet their duties as set out in the bill.
Les Lawrence, chair of the association's children and young people board, told CYP Now: "We do not need any extra targets in the form of local and national indicators - we have a couple of hundred of those already."
Instead councils would prefer existing targets to be changed, he said.
Lawrence also revealed that councils in England are divided over whether the legislation is necessary, with some believing councils should only be required to "have regard" to the bill.
It comes as MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee said a clause in the Child Poverty Bill could allow the government to sidestep its duty because of economic circumstances. Clause 15 allows the government to take account of "economic and fiscal circumstances" when preparing its child poverty strategy.
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