Social workers have visited missing Madeleine McCann's parents at their home to discuss the welfare of the couple's other two children.
Kate and Gerry McCann invited the officials for talks about two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie in the light of their being named as suspects in their eldest daughter's disappearance 133 days ago.
Child protection experts met the couple at their house in Rothley, Leicestershire, as journalists waited at the entrance to the cul-de-sac.
It is standard practice for a mother or father named as a suspect overseas to have their case considered by British authorities.
In these cases social services can in theory decide to take children into care or place them on the "in need" or "at risk" registers.
It is not known what was discussed at the meeting or what, if anything, was decided from it.
Speaking from Rothley, Mr McCann's brother John McCann said: "They will co-operate with anyone who has the family's best interests at heart."
Meanwhile, it was reported that Kate McCann's private diary documents her struggles to look after her "hysterical" children and reveals details about the night Madeleine went missing.
The diary is among a number of personal items prosecutors want from the young girl's parents, sources close to the investigation said.
Mrs McCann was frequently seen writing her journal in private moments after Madeleine went missing from the family's holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on May 3.
