The chair of the BBC’s Children in Need has resigned after the charity granted £460,000 to an LGBT group which has faced child sex abuse scandals.

In her letter of resignation shared with the Times Rosie Millard, a writer and broadcaster, accused the charity of “institutional failure”

GB News reports: The 59-year-old British broadcaster targeted chief executive Simon Antrobus for his response to the news that £466,000 was given to LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS), whose aim is to support gay and transgender individuals between the ages of 13 and 25.

This massive sum was granted by the BBC charity seven months after scandal struck the LGBT group, when the chief executive of LGBTYS James Rennie was convicted of child sex abuse in 2009.

More recently, Andrew Easton, a co-author of the group’s schools guidance was convicted of sharing indecent pictures of children and newborn babies.

Millard has claimed that the organisation took action only after she highlighted the case to the chief officers and a subsequent review led to the withdrawal of the funding.

However, in her letter, Millard argued that Antrobus failed to respond with the “necessary level of seriousness”, that he only withdrew the money over fears of bad publicity and that, after he heard of the allegations, had complained that it had ruined a Bruce Springsteen concert for him.

Meanwhile, she said another individual employed by the BBC’s charity had said that a victim was “out to get” LGBTYS.

She wrote: “That they could write this about the reported rape of a child is astonishing.”

In a statement on Wednesday night she said: “It has been an honour and a privilege to serve as Chair of BBC Children in Need.