Child welfare called to Spears home

Child welfare officials and a sheriff’s deputy visited the home of Britney Spears yesterday but declined to say whether they were investigating the pop princess.

Spears and her husband, Kevin Federline, are the parents of an infant son, Sean Preston.

The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services and the Lost Hills sheriff’s station declined to give details of Saturday afternoon’s visit.

“It’s a very standard, routine patrol request,” Lt. Debra Glaskides said Tuesday. “We just roll out with them. We stood by, we took no action, no report or anything.”

The Sheriff’s Department said it was a DCFS matter and could not release any information.

Glaskides said there may not even be a DCFS investigation, noting it may have been only a welfare check.

Phone and e-mail messages left for Spears’ New York publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, weren’t immediately returned.

In February, DCFS visited Spears’ home after publication of photographs showing the 24-year-old singer driving with then four-month-old Sean Preston in her lap, rather than in a car seat as required by law.

Spears later apologised, saying she did it because of a ”horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi.”

DCFS public affairs director Louise Grasmehr did not return a phone message left yesterday at her Los Angeles office.

The department routinely refuses to discuss cases, citing confidentiality laws.