A battle over whether an advocacy agency to improve child protection in Colorado should be independent or housed within a department it oversees may lead to a compromise: contract the work out to a nonprofit organization, The Denver Post reports. State Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, has redrafted a bill to establish the state Office of Child Advocate to include the compromise language, with the approval of Gov. Bill Ritter and Karen Beye, executive director of the Colorado Department of Human Services.