Speaking at a Barnardo's conference staged in London to mark the charity's fostering and adoption week, Narey said: "Children are having to wait too long for cases to be resolved in court and urgent action is required so that decisions are taken within a timescale that meets the child's need.
"Targets seem to be going out of fashion in the public services. But I'm an unreconstructed fan of targets and we urgently need system wide targets to help drive down delays, which are not in the interests of the child. Government has promised this but we need to see them urgently."
Narey sparked a row last September when he said social workers needed to be braver about removing children at risk and spend less time "fixing families that can't be fixed".
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