The aim of this paper was to present how social workers make assesment and decisions regarding the removal of children from their faimilies. Social workers in Croatia react to child protection procedures in such a way that they receive a report from important persons in the child's environment or make decisions in individual cases that are already being monitored by the competent Center for Social Welfare. Before the allocation itself, it is important to assess the risks, which is done through the Safety Assessment List and Risk Assessment List instruments. The paper also presents foreign instruments and their influence on the decisions of social workers. In the very focus of the paper, research is presented in which the elements that influence the decisions on the separation of children of social workers are explained, such as previous experiences, elements of the case itself, and the personal characteristics of social workers themselves. Also, one presented research showed the influence of parents on the social worker during the process of separating children. The importance of children's participation in the processes that concern them, which is guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, through information and support, as well as the role of the police in protecting children as well as helping social workers themselves in their work, where they can serve as good risk detectors, was highlighted. At the end of the paper, the difficulties in the work of social workers in Croatia are described.