Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy is expected to present the report to Parliament and then the National Assembly.

The report follows the 15-month inquiry chaired by High Court judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse in Ewloe, Flintshire.

Over 250 witnesses appeared before the inquiry and a further 200 statements were presented.

The inquiry was commissioned by former Welsh Secretary William Hague in 1996.

It followed a North Wales Police investigation into allegations of abuse in homes in the former Clwyd and Gwynedd sparked by information from a Gwynedd council social worker Alison Taylor.

A total of 150 former residents came forward claiming to have been victims of abuse.

The police inquiry led to 10 convictions. The abusers were sentenced to a total of 49 years imprisonment for offences committed at homes throughout north Wales dating back decades.

The first compensation cases following the £10m inquiry are expected to be heard in the High Court at Chester in March next year.

A large number of claims have already been settled by the former Clwyd and Gwynedd councils in whose care many of the victims were placed when they were abused.