'I want to understand why my son is not here'

A bereaved mother who is campaigning for an amendment to the government's Data Bill has said she will not stop until she understands why her son took his own life.

Ellen Roome's 14-year-old son Jools Sweeney took his own life in 2022 in what she believed was a social media challenge.

She has been campaigning to get an amendment to the law that would force social media companies to give bereaved parents access to their child's data in the event of their death and this week met with government ministers to discuss the proposal.

"The Data Bill is a good thing and it will help people and [the government] look certainly like they're trying to make it work for people," said Ms Roome.