All news by author: Anna Morell

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Kids with learning disabilities running their own shop under brilliant scheme
Students are getting valuable work experience and a shot at being entrepreneurs thanks to a scheme challenging perceptions of disabled people
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Plans to cut support for Disabled kids make no sense - it's a massive failure
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
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Assessment consultation is likely to land Disabled people right back on benefits
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
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Why is NHS patient transport so difficult for people with disabilities
Anna Morell is a regular user of patient transport but because of her energy impairment she made the decision to book an ambulance with a stretcher for a hospital appointment
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Where does the state of our crumbling schools leave SEND pupils
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
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Dis Life: 'The Government is running from Universal Credit and the UNCRPD'
'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?'
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Dis Life: 'Spurs Disabled access makes fans feel like Beyonce'
Anyone who follows football will tell you that hope was a distant dream for Spurs last season, as they lost match after match by some margin - but now I have cause to hope
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Dis Life: '85% of prison inmates are neurodivergent - no one seems to care'
Up to 85% of people in prison may be neurodiverse - it speaks volumes about how the legal system is a blunt instrument with little understanding of how to the Equality Act
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Dis Life: 'If you're not working, it's hard to keep pace with rising costs'
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
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'My friend and I are disabled - shutting ticket offices scares us in many ways'
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
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Dis Life: 'Solution to missing education isn't to force kids back into schools'
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
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'What a difference could've been made had Sinead O'Connor been offered support'
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
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Dis Life: Beach body ready but no chance of getting full access to our coastline
Have you ever tried pushing a walker on sand or pebbles? It’s a challenge worthy of It's A Knockout
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Dis Life: Patient transport vans cost up to 100k - they're not fit for purpose
When will those building and buying ambulances speak to Disabled people about our needs before signing on the dotted line?
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Ellie Simmonds' adoption documentary is a tough but essential lesson for us all
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
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'Rosie Jones is brave to use the R-word if people now realise how harmful it is'
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
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'Drive to online and machine-based train ticket sales is simply not acceptable'
Disabled people rely heavily on highly trained ticket office staff for journey and timetable information and the purchase of tickets
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Dis Life: Housing must be accessible, safe, and affordable
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
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'Lewis Capaldi's Glastonbury performance was moment of magic for Disabled Brits'
Lewis Capaldi's awe-inspiring Glasto performance was a moment of hope for the Disabled community and shows the magic that happens when we truly connect, writes activist Anna Morell
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Dis Life: Why businesses should bookend a month with purple celebrations
The colour of disability is purple. Where are the dances, the bands, the marches, the celebrations of the huge swathe of Disabled people that make up by far the largest minority in this country?
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Dis Life: Travel safety for Disabled people is on the wrong side of the tracks
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
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Dis Life: 'Genocidal quantities died of Covid - two-thirds of them Disabled'
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
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Dis Life: 14 million Disabled people in the UK - or so the data says
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
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Renters Reform Bill should mean we no longer have to live in dangerous homes
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
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Voter ID is 'gerrymandering' - and biggest election losers are disabled people
While many activists rail against Conservative policies, there are, as Jacob Rees-Mogg points out, many Disabled people who do still vote Tory
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