All news by author: Anna Morell

If we did happen to have voter ID, things still didn’t go to plan with access at polling stations. Many older and Disabled people were turned away

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 incomprehensible that the North Yorkshire and York Health and Care Partnership is removing access to autism and ADHD assessment and diagnoses for adults

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

Latest figures from the NHS show that children are three times more likely than adults to be facing waiting times of over a year for community treatments for things like speech therapy

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

As ever, Disabled people are invisible from the headlines, but not from the story - because around a third of us live in poverty

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

There is such deep rooted systemic inequality when it comes to how Disabled people are treated in this country that this is not news to Disabled people. And it is forgettable or ignorable news to most non-disabled people

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

Anna Morell, who works for Disability Rights UK, explains how changes to benefits and benefit systems since 2008 have meant that Disabled people have lost payments of around £1,200 on average each year

All Covid support has gone, but there are still shielders – disabled people who know their underlying conditions put them at too great a risk from Covid to venture out and reclaim a fully lived life now

Anna Morell says a third of disabled people are living in cold homes according to data from disability charity Scope - and pre-payment meters will make the situation even worse

Half of all disabled kids have had difficulty accessing play equipment in local parks and almost a tenth of disabled kids are worried they’ll get hurt on equipment which isn’t made with accessibility in mind

Anna Morell asks when will the Tories begin to listen and stop the bone-exposing cuts that are leading to actual loss of life, as the Government spends a small fortune on trying to deliberately put poor disabled people back in their box

Anna Morell, who works for Disability Rights UK, says actor Brendan Fraser's interviews about his role in a fat suit, beg the question: why are we still using fat suits like this?

The story of Laura Winham, whose body lay unnoticed for years after her death, is not an isolated example of how disabled people are falling through the net, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

Some disabled people are so poor right now that the old heating vs eating chestnut has been pushed up a few unbelievable grades to breathing vs heating or eating

Disability Rights UK campaigner Anna Morell argues that women are not getting a fair deal when it comes to taking time off during the menopause

School, especially secondary school, is often the worst environment in which the 1.5 million kids with disabilities and mental health distress can thrive and learn

The Government sees itself as a nanny looking to protect people, writes disability rights campaigner Anna Morell, but today’s inconvenience is tomorrow’s justice won

Travelling on trains and planes is a nightmare for disabled people just trying to get to their destinations as common sense goes out the window, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

Disability campaigner Anna Morell urges Brits to remove their gaze from Prince Harry's bombshell memoir Spare and pay attention again to the underfunding of the NHS by the Tories

Anna Morell, who works for Disability Rights UK, recounts the moment a lady repeatedly asked her if she was ok and if she needed help after seeing her with her crutches