Tim Carmody to recommend closure of Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian REFORMS COMING: Tim Carmody at the Child Protection Commission of Inquiry. His report will be handed to the Newman Government today. TIM Carmody's final report is expected to contain more than a few grenades. The expected recommendation to shut down the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian is one which will have maximum impact. The Commission is an independent statutory body and for more than a decade has overseen the Blue Card system which makes assessments on those working closely with children. Child Guardian Commissioner Elizabeth Fraser has been outspoken on a range of issues affecting children including the detention of 17-year-old Queenslanders in adult prisons. But it may be the advocacy and law reform role played by the commission did not sit well with the Carmody Inquiry. Carmody and his team appeared to have less interest in the academic side of child protection as it did in the practical business of protecting and improving the lives of the 8000 children in State care. The recommendation for a new Family and Child Council, if implemented, will put a highly credentialed group of people at the front line of child welfare in this state. That council is expected to work closely with the Premier's office and have the ear of Premier Campbell Newman. One of its tasks will almost certainly be to help bed down many of Carmody's recommendations in the year ahead. What a stretched Queensland Police Service will make of its new-found responsibilities to oversee the Blue Card system remains to be seen, along with what sort of resources it can expect to do the job. There are reports of more than 50 people inside the Commission for Young People being assigned to the Blue Card system, which can be thrown up thousands of applications a month. Fortunately for Ms Fraser, she will not be facing the axe. After a distinguished career spanning more than 40 years both internationally and domestically, her eight-year tenure as Queensland's Commissioner for Children and Young People and Child Guardian ended on January 30. Barry Salmon is still referred to as "Acting Commissioner."