Child Safeguarding - should I report this?

[WhaleofaThyme]

I was just walking down a main road, and there was a family with three children - one of the children stopped as the rest of the family crossed a road as there was a car coming. It turned out with the mum shouting at the child and the child crying. When we walked further down the road the mum threatened the child with a close fist on two occasions and the child literally backed away from the mum.

It's really made me feel ill and I am unsure if I should, or how to report it?

The family were not speaking English so I am not sure if I should contact the local schools or not - I do live in quite a diverse area, but the children were not in school uniform either. I got the feeling they may have been visiting?

You can’t really report it if you don’t know who they are I don’t think?

Thehop That's what I am thinking. Then I thought that maybe they are known on the small chance that they are local, but I just don't know what to do. I've never seen a kid recoil like that...

So who do you suggest reporting it to? You have no idea who they are, where they are from and might not even be from this country and could be on holiday.

Yes it's not a nice thing to have done but I would forget about it.

I'm not sure - that's sort of what I was asking as part of this.

Then the answer is there is no agency that can trace them based on what you have said

Sounds like it was not nice BUT I get quite cross with DS when he is dangerous near roads and if he were to stop in the middle of the road I'd be very cross because I want him to live and not end up being hit by a car, in A&E, in trauma surgery, in PICU, with permanent injuries, or dead.
So my apparent cross-ness when he is dangerous is not representative of my parenting style. HOwever, I'd never do the fist thing.

Thank you. Just to clarify the child stopped before crossing the road (on the pavement), whilst the parents darted across with buggy and another child.

But I get what you are saying @leghoul