UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has defended the independent inquiry into historical child sex abuse after the largest group of victims pulled out of the process.
The Shirley Oaks Survivors Association, for 600 victims who lived in children’s homes in Lambeth, said it had no confidence in the inquiry’s leadership.
Chuka Umunna MP said the inquiry chair, Prof Alexis Jay, should be replaced.
But Ms Rudd said: “We owe it to victims and survivors to get behind the inquiry, and its chair.”
She said the inquiry had a “vital role to play in exposing the failure of public bodies and other major organisations to prevent child sexual abuse”.
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