All news by author: Anna Morell

Students are getting valuable work experience and a shot at being entrepreneurs thanks to a scheme challenging perceptions of disabled people

Mirror columnist Anna Morrell explains why a reported proposal to cut the number of support plans available to children with special education needs won't benefit anyone, and why Britain's collapsing care system has been dealt another blow

Mirror columnist Anna Morell has strong feelings about Disabled people being told to 'look for employment' and is calling on the government to do more for people with health issues

More than 100 schools are unable to fully open for the start of the autumn term but this could have a devastating impact on SEND children

'The Government refused to attend the UN this week to be held accountable Disabled rights violations. Why is it afraid of taking us, and the poverty which impacts us, seriously?'

The Times is reporting that the Chancellor is looking at cutting the welfare bill amidst fears of having to increase it by £4 billion due to inflation

Anna Morell and her friend Sue both have disabilities but are still regular users of the rail network - here Anna alights on the sheer number of ways shutting station ticket offices will impact on their lives

There are certain aspects of society who still do not see the light when it comes to school refusing - they are desperate to push children back into a system which is broken

The outpouring of emotion around Sinead's death is prompting a conversation - she often spoke truths which were otherwise brushed under the carpet, but she wasn't supported

Have you ever tried pushing a walker on sand or pebbles? It’s a challenge worthy of It's A Knockout

When will those building and buying ambulances speak to Disabled people about our needs before signing on the dotted line?

It breaks my heart that there are Disabled children needing adoption who are actively ignored in this respect because families are afraid to take them on, writes Anna Morell

Rosie Jones is not using the R word to disparage - she’s throwing it back at those who hurt her, a Molotov cocktail to the conscience, argues Anna Morell in her latest Dis Life column

I’m lucky. I’ve found somewhere (it’s not fully accessible). But it was indeed luck. It wasn’t because these places are readily available

The rail industry is looking to cut staffing even further, which will mean less staff on platforms and potentially almost none at all in ticket offices

At the beginning of the pandemic, we wondered whether the vulnerability people felt would translate into better empathy for Disabled people. But it didn’t

Eighty per cent of disabilities are invisible. And people keep them that way, invisible, because of fear that they will be treated differently, or abused

As Disabled people, we can’t rent affordable housing. Accessible housing is even more expensive than non-accessible housing. And it isn’t even accessible

While many activists rail against Conservative policies, there are, as Jacob Rees-Mogg points out, many Disabled people who do still vote Tory

Once again, people with no lived experience of disability have decided the solution is really easy - they are focussing on the wrong thing

It’s great that Mattel has taken such care to represent a Disabled person as true to life. But it’s still presenting non-Disabled people with an unachievable ideal of beauty in traditional Barbie

The Government released the SEND plan: right support, right place, right time recently. The trouble is, it doesn’t prioritise improving provision and funding is limited

The Government intends to use Personal Independence Payments, a benefit designed to help us cover extra living costs as Disabled people, as the passport for additional Universal Credit money

There has been some lovely visible success for Disabled people in TV and film recently. Elsewhere, everything else is, as ever, still an unholy mess

This week’s shocker (not actually a shocker) for Disabled people was news of a jolly little chat between then Health Secretary Matt Hancock and aide Allan Nixon