There are also plans to change rules on how children’s social media data is stored under the Crime and Policing Bill, after the Jools’ Law campaign.
In 2022, Ellen Roome’s son Jools died aged 14. She believes he was trying an internet challenge which went wrong, but has never been able to access his data to prove it.
Under current rules, a child’s data must be requested from tech companies within 12 months of their death by either a coroner or the police.
But bereaved parents say often by the time that happens, this record of what their child has been doing online has already been deleted.
New rules will mean it has to be preserved within five days if it might be relevant to the cause of death, which hopefully means more families will get some answers.
“This going forward will help other bereaved families,” Roome said. “What we now need to do is stop the harm happening in the first place. This is really relevant when a child dies, but we need to stop them dying in the first place.”