 In June 2013, a redacted copy of the Jillings report was reportedly put up for auction on internet auction site eBay.After Wrexham Council threatened legal action, the item was removed from sale.In 1996, the then Secretary of State for Wales, William Hague, ordered a Tribunal of Inquiry into allegations of hundreds of cases of child abuse in care homes in former county council areas of Clwyd and Gwynedd between 1974 and 1990.