We're going to bring our live coverage of Fiona Woolf's decision to step down as the head of the inquiry to a close. Our news story will continue to be updated with the latest developments.

tweets, external There are many people in Westminster who would be happy to see the #CSA inquiry derailed. Theresa May is not one of them. Stay focused team.

You can find a run-down of the current child abuse investigations and inquiries involving UK institutions here.

tweets, external Fiona Woolf right to quit, but huge questions now over Theresa May's repeated failure to pick abuse inquiry head acceptable to victims.

Camilla Batmanghelidjh, founder of the children's support group Kids Company, says today's events make abuse victims who were already "anxious about establishment" involvement "feel this is all being engineered in a perverse way".

UKIP MEP Jane Collins has called on Theresa May to resign. "The whole process of appointing a lead for the Child Sex Abuse inquiry has been an absolute shambles. The only people who are suffering are the victims of the abuse."

Michael Mansfield QC, whose name has been mentioned in connection with leading the inquiry, tells BBC Radio 5 Live he wants to know about the other candidates the Home Office approached for the role: "What kind of trawl have they made? Nobody knows this."

BBC Radio 5 live's John Pienaar says that after all the attention focused on the inquiry, whoever eventually steps into the chairman's role will have to have "an awful lot of competence, an awful lot of confidence, and an awful lot of courage".

@ShyKeenan tweets, external: #CSAinquiry I think Mrs Woolf is a very good person, just wrong for this job ...

tweets , externalLab MP @SimonDanczuk, external says Woolf episode cost time: "Some... child abusers are very old & could well die before justice catches up with them"

Ross Hawkins, BBC political correspondent

says several survivors and representatives at today's meeting said the government had not kept them up to date with the inquiry's progress. One - who queried whether his travel expenses for today's meeting would even be refunded - said he felt "taken for granted".

Critics of the home secretary will say her promises to consult victims over the next chairman are too late, and "the job of gaining their confidence may be every bit as tough as finding a new chairman".

Fiona Woolf was the government's second choice to lead the sex abuse inquiry following the resignation of Baroness Butler-Sloss. You can find more about her life and the background to the inquiry in our profile.

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tweets, external: "Woolf has resigned. It's genuinely astonishing how incompetent the government has been in this matter"

Ross Hawkins, BBC political correspondent

says the voices of victims' and their representatives were impossible to ignore. More than three months after it was established, the inquiry has no leader, and has completed no meaningful work.

The resignation will see the scrutiny switch to the Home Secretary Theresa May, with Labour leader Ed Miliband suggesting the events were a direct consequence of the way that she had run the process.

Geordie Greig, editor of the Mail On Sunday, says Mrs Woolf's resignation is "a reminder of the need to protect investigative journalism at a time when press freedom has never been under greater threat in Britain". Mr Greig's newspaper was the first to raise questions after she was appointed about Fiona Woolf's links to Leon Brittan.

Tony Gallagher, Daily Mail Deputy Editor

tweets:, external "A good week for a vigorous free press which exposed Woolf. Mail on Sunday led the way. Daily Mail/Independent did most thereafter..."

emails: "How on earth does the government get into situations like this? It would have needed only a little competence and understanding of the real world to select a capable chair acceptable to the interested parties."

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, says "it is right that Fiona Woolf has decided to stand down and she has done so with considerable dignity, having been put in an impossible position by the Home Secretary".

Mrs Cooper also said that for two inquiry heads to have stepped down demonstrated the government's "appalling incompetence".

tweets: , external "If Fiona Woolf realised some time ago that victims groups did not trust her, why didn't she go then?"

Peter Saunders, of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said he was glad Mrs Woolf had "finally done the honourable thing".

Earlier today Mr Saunders said the inquiry would be a "dead duck" if she remained.