Diana Johnson MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Home Office, commenting on today’s comments from a group of child abuse survivors said:

“Labour has consistently been calling for the voice of survivors to be central to the inquiry into child abuse. The inquiry will not have the confidence of those it most needs to hear from unless a process for involving and supporting survivors is established. If we look at equivalent inquiries in Northern Ireland and Australia they began by establishing a forum to enable people to come forward and give evidence that then guided the inquiry. Theresa May should have given survivors a strong voice in the inquiry from the start, having failed to do this she needs to rectify this immediately.”