Overview
- Ellen Roome, 49, from Cheltenham, received an MBE in the New Year Honours for services to children’s online safety.
- She is pushing for Jools’ Law, which would require social media firms to give bereaved parents access to a deceased child’s data without a court order.
- Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said peers are expected to consider in January an amendment to the crime and policing bill to preserve a child’s online data after death.
- She argues for routine digital checks in post-mortems and inquests, comparable to toxicology reports for drugs and alcohol.
- Roome sold the financial services business she ran for 18 years after her 14-year-old son Jools died in 2022, calling platforms “not safe” and describing the honour as bittersweet.