AN EMERGENCY motion tabled last month by an ex-governor at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has been leaked online to campaigners.

Mark Aspinall, the governor for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire at the beleaguered trust, resigned on Friday morning after a damning Care Quality Commission report.

On Tuesday, April 26 Mr Aspinall brought forward a motion for the council to recognise that its response to Oxford teenager Connor Sparrowhawk's death was "wrong, inadequate and inappropriate."

The motion suggested Southern Health had failed to have regard to Principle 4 of the NHS Constitution, "that the patient shall be at the heart of everything the NHS does", and Principle 7, "that the NHS is accountable to the public and communities and patients it serves".

In recent months Southern Health has come under fire for its handling of the case of Connor Sparrowhawk, an 18-year-old who died under its care in Headington in 2013.

It has also been criticised for a failure to investigate hundreds of other clients' deaths or improve safety sufficiently in its remaining care units across the South of England.

A full copy of the motion was leaked to the 'Justice for LB' campaign, which has called for greater accountability in the wake of Connor's death.

It also asked the council to resolve "To apologise immediately, completely and unreservedly to the family of Connor Sparrowhawk for his needless death in the care of our Trust" and "That it has no confidence in the current leadership of our Trust".

It is understood that the motion is being held back for an extraordinary governors' meeting to take place later this month.