UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A campaign group involved in the public inquiry into historic allegations of child sexual abuse says it may withdraw from the process.
Shirley Oaks Survivors Association said the inquiry’s new chair, Prof Alexis Jay, may have a potential conflict of interest as a former social worker.
The group represents 600 people who allege they were abused in south London children’s homes.
The national inquiry is made up of 13 separate investigations.
Investigations into claims of abuse in children’s homes in Lambeth are due to form a key part of the embattled inquiry’s work.
But Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who supports the Shirley Oaks campaign, said the social work profession was “culpable” and that Prof Jay should step aside for this strand of the inquiry’s work.
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