And who would I report them to? Walked past childminders house the other day and saw a baby outside crying. I hace has discussions with said childminder before and she is very aggressive and defensive, always complaining about how people are watching her every move because she is a childminder and apparently people are just dying to report her for anything at all. On my way home from school drop off the other day I saw a baby outside crying. I didn't know what to do and didn't have my phone on me so couldn't call anyone immediately. I decided that I was too angry to confront directly and I needed to enlist help, I live about 150 yards away and was on way home to get phone and go back and ring police. On the way I met a neighbour, another parent, and explained the situation, she said she knew exactly who I was talking about and she would go round as the childminder is quite ditsy and she would knock on and let her know. A bit later the neighbour called to say that she had called round and there was no answer for ages, she had to go into the house and found childminder and her friend chatting in the kitchen. Childminder said that they were just on the way out but no one had their coats on, baby had been outside for at least 10 minutes completely alone (other than me stood nearby making sure no one took the child away). So my question is, is it unreasonable to report this childminder to the authorities and if not then which authorities would you report her to? I personally think if it were my child that had been put in thy danger I would want to know, but maybe I'm wrong.