Victims of alleged historical sex abuse say they will snub an inquiry led by the Home Office - as Theresa May hosts a crunch meeting about the investigation.
Yesterday, Sky News learned that 24 individuals had signed a letter to the Home Secretary saying they had lost confidence in the inquiry.
Today, a further five people - understood to be one survivor and four professionals - have added their names to the letter.
The letter states three reasons for withdrawing. First, the signatories are unhappy that the terms of reference of the inquiry do not go far enough.
They want the inquiry to investigate the Government and the establishment over cover-ups of paedophiles in their ranks.
Second, they say that while two successive heads of the inquiry have stood down, there are other conflicts of interest among members of the panel.
Third, they feel the investigation should look further back than 1970 - going back to 1945.
The letter states: "As survivors and associated professionals, we were very much hoping to take up the invitations to engage with your Ministerial Officers to discuss the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry, but we regret to say we have to decline.
"We, alongside many survivors, have made numerous representations to you regarding our view that the inquiry as it stands is not fit for purpose."
Speaking from Peebles in Scotland, abuse survivor Ian McFadyen accused the Home Office of "dictating" to victims and paying them "lip service".
He said that Mrs May was not being "open and transparent" about the selection of the inquiry panel, nor the election of a new chair.
"Theresa May has come to Westminster and has apologised that she hasn't consulted survivors - what she's not recognising is there is a difference between consultation and sitting down and listening to us and hearing us.
"And unfortunately I don't see that. I don't see that she's sitting down and actually listening to what it is that we require."
He continued: "I refuse to be dictated to by the Home Office. This meeting today has an agenda which has been prepared by the Home Office.
"This has been dictated to survivors - this is not about consulting, this about lip service.
"People are missing the point, they are seeing middle-aged survivors asking for justice and truth.
"But what they're not understanding is that what we are asking for is an inquiry to find out how children in the past were failed, how we were let down, how establishments have covered mistakes that they have made.
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