Now generally I'd say that using personal experience isn't a solid argument
but I fell out with my Mum when I was 16 and left home and the council did fuck all.
I also know someone who had a proper letter from a parent stating that they wouldn't be allowed home and nothing was done to help them either.
(Psycho Eyes, Tue 5 Feb 2008, 14:34, archived)

I had those problems when I was sixteen, too
I never got on with my mum. Unfortunately, the council would do bugger all unless I was 18, apart from put me in the hostel that had murders, drugs, and allsorts in it.

Problem was, whereas social services couldn't do anything for me, they intervened from putting me in that place.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Tue 5 Feb 2008, 14:37, archived)