One thing I do agree with: society and extended family used to take care of kids. Helping with everyone's kids, 150 years ago, was a non-negotiable part of simply living in a village. Kids played in the village, anywhere, and everyone watched out for their safety, behavior, and food, eating with anyone, was just not a big deal. Pestering the adults, even causing minor damage was normal and retribution was NOT allowed. Now society hates kids and throws all responsibility, whatever happens, on the parents. And this goes pretty far: from poverty to being out of immediate reach when something happens, from learning difficulties to serious behavior problems. It's all both the parents fault, and parents are THE ONLY ONES responsible for help.
Youth services embodies this idiotic attitude perfectly: they enforce an ever-higher standard on everyone ... except, of course, on themselves. Anyone living in youth services lives in poverty, in an abusive, attention-starved environment where most are confronted with trauma, drugs, crime, even prostitution (and let's not get started on the abuse situations IN youth services. If you want a kid to abuse, foster care is an easy way to get a kid the police won't believe. A parent using an isolation cell on their own kid will get thrown in prison, but they're the norm in youth services, even in "open" institutions)
The situation within youth services is that way ... to save money (but loads of money is spent finding more kids to throw into youth services, taking care of them once there, THAT cannot be allowed to cost anything. But it seems to me getting hit daily at home is preferable to the situation in a lot of youth care institutions).
Parents are punished if a kid even witnesses a small crime, like a fight. For punishing parents, suspicion is enough (no need for proof). That a kid becomes pregnant at 13 while coming back drunk daily is NOT a reason to take a kid OUT of youth services ... but a parent insisting kids take public transport to school in the morning against the wishes of a social worker IS reason to use violence against the kids and parents to throw them into youth services.