Survivors of sexual abuse at a Croydon children's home have said said they may pull out of an inquiry because they do not feel it is "truly independent".

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, launched two years ago and described as the most ambitious public inquiry ever in England and Wales, has been beset by problems and is now working under its fourth chairwoman.

Raymond Stevenson, of the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association, told BBC Newsnight the probe had failed to meet group members when asked to in recent weeks.

Mr Stevenson was drugged and beaten while in care at Shirley Oaks Children's Home, where a paedophile ring operated between the 1960s and 1980s.

Former residents of the Wickham Road children's home, run by Lambeth Council, formed the association to fight to for justice and and push for an investigation into claims of a cover-up.

Mr Stevenson said: "We have to recommend at this moment in time that we pull out. We have given the inquiry an opportunity to meet us. We contacted them two weeks ago and we are still waiting for a meeting."

He cited concerns about the involvement of the Home Office in the inquiry.

"Some of our members have been through investigations before which had Home Office members and staff part of it so we have been through that," he said.

"This is about the third investigation Lambeth has been through so what we wanted from this was for it to be truly independent. We were sold a theory it would be truly independent."

Earlier this week the inquiry's most recent ex-chairwoman Dame Lowell Goddard called for a complete review, claiming the probe's budget does not match its "sheer scale and size".

Three paedophiles have previously been convicted of abusing children at the home in Wickham Road in the 1970s and 80s, but campaigners say more perpetrators have escaped prosecution so far.

Two people abused as children while living at the home last year waived their legal right to anonymity to speak to the Croydon Guardian about their ordeals.