The Deputy Prime Minister has told Sky News Ashya King should be reunited with his jailed parents as quickly as possible, saying the fact they are separated fills him with "horror".
Brett King and his wife Naghemeh remain in police custody in Madrid while a Spanish court considers whether to grant a British extradition request.
Ashya, who has a brain tumour, is under police guard at the Materno-Infantil hospital in Malaga, about 330 miles south of the capital.
He has not seen his parents since they were arrested on Saturday after taking Ashya out of Southampton General Hospital to seek specialist cancer treatment abroad.
Ashya's parents arrive at court on Monday The five-year-old's six siblings are also being prevented from visiting him at the hospital.
Nick Clegg told Sky News it was a "heartbreaking" situation.
"I've got a five-year-old son and the idea of leaving him in a hospital with no contact with parents and siblings fills me, as I imagine it fills all parents, with horror," he said.
"I would like to see the family reunited and then hopefully people can calmly make a decision about what should happen next.
Naveed King, Ashya's brother "Throwing the full force of the law at two parents who in a state of despair and anguish are acting they say because that's what they think is best for their child, doesn't seem to me to be the appropriate thing to do."
Former children's minister Tim Loughton wrote on Twitter that the Crown Prosecution Service should drop the case against the family, called on the police to apologise and for the NHS to fund treatment for Ashya.
Petitions on change.org calling for the release of the Kings so they can get medical treatment for Ashya have now gathered nearly 20,000 signatures.
Ashya and Brett King in a video the family posted online Meanwhile, British police officers are understood to have arrived in Spain to question Ashya's parents.
Hampshire Police's Assistant Chief Constable Chris Shead said he was aware the police's approach had led to a "significant amount of debate" but he would rather be criticised for "being proactive" than "potentially having to explain why a child has lost his life".
Simon Hayes, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, said: "Hampshire Constabulary's role, as in many other cases, was to safeguard the interests of a very vulnerable sick young child and find Ashya."
The Crown Prosecution Service said the case was under "immediate review" and a decision on whether to prosecute would be made.
Ashya's grandmother Patricia King has accused the authorities of treating the couple "like murderers".
Patricia King earlier said her son was selling his holiday home in Spain to pay for proton beam therapy, which costs an average of £100,000 per person.
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