Sin Bins?

Britain is putting about 20,000 families under 24 hour surveillance, because they behave badly. The idea is to make sure parents send their kids to school, as well as keep to a proper eating and sleeping schedule. Not only that, but there are guards on patrol to make sure everybody behaves.

Children's Secretary Ed Balls: “This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support.”

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling: “This is all much too little, much too late.
“This Government has been in power for more than a decade during which time anti-social behaviour, family breakdown and problems like alcohol abuse and truancy have just got worse and worse.” Nice little Statist work going on there. Implement policies that destroy the nuclear family, then send in Statist bureaucrats to control the situation they created.

Shadow Home Secretary? It turns out that the Brits have a shadow cabinet. (Sounds a bit like what Obama is doing with all his 'czars'.) The Shadow Home Secretary actually follows the real "Home Secretary" around and analyzes all domestic decisions like prisons, immigration, police, etc.

Then there are "Youth Offending Teams" which I think implements the "Youth Crime Action Plan".

Back to the guy talking about the 'root of the problem'. The root of the problem is the State running God and morality out of town, and implementing secular and Statist models that never work.

Boy, sometimes...