All Kingston Council workers mentioned in the Charito Cruz domestic homicide review no longer work for the authority, according to the current head of children’s social care.

Sylvia Chew said the workers left following a restructuring of the service in the wake of the safeguarding services’ disastrous 2012 Ofsted inspection. None of the workers were sacked, Ms Chew added.

She said: “We undertook some restructuring of the service as part of the improvement plan and they were not appointed to those positions.

“It was not through a capacity and disciplinary process.”

A 2011 reshuffle that saw four different teams having to log referrals has been reversed.

Ms Chew said: “We have gone back to a traditional model with a single point of contact. We have got some consistency.

“We’ve got much more robust prevention and early help now.”

Council leader Kevin Davis said he was now “optimistic” about the make-up of Kingston’s children’s services.

He said: “There’s just a sense of mission about them. That there’s a duty of care there.

“Ultimately the blame [for what happened] lies with the man who committed a crime.”

Lead member for children Councillor Andrea Craig said: “Lessons have been learned.

“We are improving and increasing the number of people that we are aware of, but that is only possible if the victims come forward.”

She added: “Please come forward because you are in a situation that will be taken seriously. The department is completely transformed. The attitude is completely different.”

Ms James-Hanman said she had seen “significant improvement” in the way Kingston handles domestic violence.

She added: “I think [this] is distinctly less likely to happen again in Kingston.”

She added that the council’s internal review of what went wrong was “thorough, it wasn’t defensive and it underwent a significant period of scrutiny from all the partner agencies, as did all of the [reviews].”