Theresa May has apologised to victims of historical child sex abuse after losing a second chair of an official inquiry.
The Home Secretary faced MPs to explain how she would proceed after Fiona Woolf resigned on Friday because of her links to Lord Brittan, who is accused of failing to act on abuse allegations while home secretary in the 1980s.
Mrs Woolf's predecessor, Baroness Butler-Sloss, stood down in similar circumstances in July.
The minister said she would meet victims next week before deciding on a new chairman - and would establish a liaison group.
Mrs May told MPs: "Almost four months after I announced my intention to establish a panel inquiry it is obviously very disappointing that we do not yet have a panel chairman and for that I want to tell survivors that I am sorry.
"I know that, perhaps because of the identity of your abusers or the way you were treated when you needed help, many of you have lost trust in the authorities.
"I know some of you have questioned the legitimacy of this process. I understand that. I am listening and to you I say this: I am as determined as you are to get to the truth.
"We have a once in a generation opportunity to do something that is hugely important.
"Together we can expose what has gone wrong in the past, we can prevent it from going wrong in the future.
"We can make sure people who thought they were beyond the reach of the law face justice."
The Home Secretary said the inquiry panel would continue to meet without a replacement chairman - starting next Wednesday.
Mrs May admitted that it "will not be straightforward to find a chairman" for the inquiry who has "both the expertise to do this hugely important work and has had no contact at all with an institution or an individual about whom people have concerns".
But she added: "I still believe it is possible to find somebody who is suitably qualified and can win the confidence of survivors."
Significantly, the minister also revealed that a separate report by NSPCC chief Peter Wanless would be made public next week.
Mr Wanless has examined how the Home Office in the 1980s dealt with - and potentially failed to act on - a dossier on abuse.
The report and inquiry are looking into abuse and cover ups by politicians and other senior figures between the 1970s and 1990s.
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