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This article addresses the predicament of family service systems being built on parents’ voluntary participation and the need for parental consent, which may block children’s right to services. It examines parental consent and the impact of parental non-consent for children’s opportunities to receive protection and support in Swedish child and family welfare. The authors analysed 264 child assessments randomly selected from 12 municipalities in Sweden in order to investigate how parents’ voluntary participation exerts an influence on the assessment process. The results show that nearly half…