Overview
- Ellen Roome was named an MBE in the New Year Honours for services to children's online safety after the 2022 death of her 14-year-old son, Jools.
- In a BBC Breakfast interview, she became emotional as she said peers are expected to discuss in January adding a requirement to preserve a deceased child's data to the crime and policing bill.
- Roome is campaigning for 'Jools' Law' to allow parents access to a deceased child's social media data without a court order, having sold her business to campaign full-time.
- She proposes routine 'digital checks' in post-mortem and inquest processes, similar to toxicology reports, to secure perishable evidence.
- She said she would return the honour to have her son back and has voiced suspicion that a harmful online challenge may have played a role, which has not been established by authorities.