 The Commission issued conclusions in October 2019, stating of Dakin's original handling of the case that “The suspension of the Dean came as a seismic shock to the civic authorities and churchpeople in Jersey, and triggered a breakdown in trust between the Church and people in both Islands, and Winchester.Questions were immediately raised as to the propriety, and indeed legality, of the Bishop’s actions.” The final decision of the Commission was that the Channel Islands should not return to the episcopal oversight of the Bishop of Winchester, but should instead be incorporated into the neighbouring Diocese of Salisbury, as a new permanent arrangement for episcopal care.The new arrangement is for both Jersey and Guernsey Deaneries, as relations had broken down across all the Channel Islands.