The paper presents results from a study of structured investigative child interviews developed to be used in the context of child welfare investigations: the “iRiSk” risk and safety interviews for children subjected to violence in the family. The data consists of 20 audio recorded interviews drawing on this interview protocol, carried out in Sweden 2017-2021, involving 21 children and 11 case workers from five different child welfare offices. The interviews were analyzed through Conversation Analysis (CA). The results presented concern the extent and context for children’s agency in terms of tackling leading components of interviewer questions regarding violence, as well as how children in the context of these interviews express experiences of fear associated with being exposed to different forms of violence in a family context.