Victims' groups are due to meet officials from a child sex abuse inquiry and are expected to reiterate calls for the inquiry's head to resign.
Some victims have already said Fiona Woolf should step down because of her social links to ex-Home Secretary Lord Brittan, whose handling of abuse claims in the 1980s has been questioned.
A victims' representative said he had "zero confidence" in the inquiry.
The government said it still had confidence in Mrs Woolf.
The inquiry will look at whether public bodies and other institutions did enough to protect children from sexual abuse, from 1970 to the present day.
The first person appointed to lead it - Baroness Butler-Sloss - stepped down in July after concerns were raised about her family links.
'Whitewash'The NSPCC, which is expected to attend the meeting with inquiry officials, has declined to give explicit backing to Mrs Woolf, a corporate lawyer who is not expected to be at Friday's meeting.
It said the government inquiry should be judged on its work rather than who leads it, but that it should get under way.
But Peter Saunders, of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said Mrs Woolf was an "entirely inappropriate" choice of chair for the inquiry.
"What in God's name are they doing appointing a corporate lawyer who knows, and has already demonstrated she knows, nothing about this deeply entrenched social evil?" he said.
He called the inquiry a "whitewash", adding: "Survivors just want the truth. We have zero confidence that this will follow."
A victim of historical child sexual abuse has launched a legal challenge to Mrs Woolf's appointment, claiming she is not impartial, has no relevant expertise and may not have time to discharge her duties.
Earlier this month Mrs Woolf, who is Lord Mayor of London, disclosed that she lived in the same street as Lord Brittan and had dinner with him five times between 2008 and 2012 - but said he was not a "close associate".
Lord Brittan may be called to give evidence to the inquiry. He denies any wrongdoing in the way the "dossier" on alleged high-profile paedophiles was handled in the 1980s.
'Totally failed'On Thursday, MP Keith Vaz said letters from Mrs Woolf showed her appointment was "chaotic". He said a letter from Mrs Woolf about her links with Lord Brittan was re-written seven times and the final version gave a "sense of greater detachment".
The Home Office said Mrs Woolf had demonstrated "openness and transparency".
"We remain confident Fiona Woolf and the panel members can carry out their duties to the highest standards of impartiality and integrity," it said.
Labour's shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said Home Secretary Theresa May had "totally failed" to get the inquiry going.
Baroness Butler-Sloss stepped down earlier this year after concerns were raised about her family links.
Her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general in the 1980s.
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