Access to children’s social media after death ‘moral and humane right’, MPs hear

Parents should be given the right ‘morally and humanely’ to access their children’s social media accounts after they have died, MPs have heard (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

Parents should be given the right “morally and humanely” to access their children’s social media accounts after they have died, MPs have heard.

Labour MP for Darlington Lola McEvoy quoted Ellen Roome, a bereaved parent seeking answers about why her 14-year-old son Jools Sweeney died in April 2022, believing it could have been an online challenge gone wrong.