If your childminder lost your child would you want to know?

[Kyrptonite]

Just picked DS up from school. Saw next doors DD and said hello where's your childminder? Needed to check what time we needed to drop kids back at school for nativity. She said she's lost my brother so she's looking for him.
Said brother is 4 (July born so young 4).

He was found at a park. He went through the woods and across a road. He was sobbing his heart out and she was pulling him back towards school telling him how he was going to have to apologise to the head teacher for leaving the school.

AIBU to think this shouldn't have happened? And she really should be fucking comforting the scared child before telling him off?

Also WIBU to knock next door and tell his dad what happened?

She is an Early Years practitioner, not a parent and is expected to behave like a professional.

It is not her place to 'bollock' a child, ever. Dragging him back, yelling at him is inappropriate. She most certainly should have spoken to him and explained why what he did was wrong as soon as he was calm enough to listen. She then should have written an incident report to share with the parents and asked them to reinforce the message about not running off.

It would also be inappropriate to punish the child through humiliating him by putting reins on him. She will have been taught appropriate behaviour management techniques and should have been using those.

She's a professional and there are requirements and expectations regarding how she behaves around her charges that don't apply to parents. Childminders who behave like harrassed mothers who are having a bad day give other childminders a bad name.