The charity's chief executive Martin Narey said a month ago that social workers should remove more at-risk children from troubled families.
At Conservative conference fringe event Protecting children: the challenges for social care workers, Loughton said: "I fundamentally disagree with Martin Narey. I think Barnardo's is using shock tactics. Are we seriously saying we want to play the numbers game with children in care, where one per cent go on to university and 30 per cent of prisoners come from a care background?"
He added: "If we got the care system working really well, there would be a case."
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