Obtain an insight into the views of experts who make decisions on interventions in child protection systems is meaningful due to prediction of the outcomes of the process and adopting a decision to incorporate the need for additional training of experts. Therefore, the aim of the paper was to examine attitudes about child welfare in social work students (N = 138) and psychology (N = 61), their familiarity with the child protection system and correlation between those attitudes and knowledge. The analyses of results have shown that students do not differ in child welfare attitudes. Students tend to have a moderately negative attitude towards keeping the child at home and towards the participation of parents in the decision-making process. Students tend to have a neutral attitude towards the reunification of family and the optimal duration of alternative care. Students tend to have moderately positive attitude towards child participation in the decision-making process and adequacy of foster and residential care to promote child well-being. As regards to the self assessed knowledge, students of social work have self-assessed their knowledge about child welfare protection as higher than students of psychology. Further analysis has shown that students who self-assessed their knowledge about child protection system have more positive attitude toward child participation in the decision-making process. No other significant correlation was found which can lead to the conclusion that students most of the attitudes about child welfare do not form on their knowledge about child protection system