I live next to a child minder

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My neighbour rents the house next door to me and runs a child minding business. Today they have had a child crying for 30 minutes with no one comforting the child. It breaks my heart. It is incredibly distressing to work from home when children are being left to cry it out. What would be the best course of action.

How do you know no one was comforting them? Sometimes kids can cry constantly, even when being cuddled.

I wouldn’t be reporting it to anyone, and definitely not as a one off.

Do you know for a fact that nobody was engaging with the child or trying to console it? Sometimes children will cry for half an hour or longer no matter what the adult does. I would want to know there was actually neglect happening before I blew up someone’s livelihood.

If you are sure she is neglecting the children, then you should report her to Ofsted, and possibly social services.

If this was a regular thing, and you could see that no one was looking after the dc then that would be one thing.

But a one off, and you can't see is another.

I remember when dd2 had chickenpox at 6 months. She was incredibly miserable for a couple of days, and cuddling had no effect on calming her - and had a scream like a banshee.
It doesn't mean that they aren't being comforted.

You don't know that no one was comforting the child. When mine where little my son used to cry for 30 minutes because he couldn't get his sock on, didn't want help and got more upset when I tried to help. I just had to let him try and come to me when he finally asked for help. He was loved and cared for but he was very contrary at this age as are most Kids, you have no idea what was happening.

If you have real ongoing concerns then call your local councils duty social services line - often called MASH

we are a semi detached neighbours, I work in my spare room on the top floor and can see them in the garden. The chile who is not more than a year old was tired and reaching out to the main childminder. They were two other adults all sitting around the other children eating Icecream. The mains child minder sort of brushed him off when he reached out to her, and he tried to comfort himself on the astroturf. Later another worker put some clothes on him but still left him to comfort himself. He was lying on his tummy crying and trying to comfort himself, he was probably hot and tired,
I often watch them just look at the children that are crying without offering any sort of physical comfort. I have a 3 year old myself so I understand that children often cry about random things. This child wanted comforting and really made me sad. Later the child was taken inside so could only hear a child crying.

You can report to Ofsted if you aren't happy with the care provided.

Just contact the council and say you’re concerned and tell them why.

Yes I would report this sort of behaviour.

Please report this. This is someone's baby

Aww, the update from the OP is sad.

I’d 1000% want to know about this if I were the boy’s mum.

Yes that’s sad what would it have taken to pick him up.i would report if I felt I could