UK to take in child refugees separated from parents #Refugees
January 28, 2016
Britain has committed more than a billion dollars to helping refugees in Syria and the region (AFP)
The UK is to take in refugee children separated from their parents by conflicts in Syria and other countries, the government has said.
The announcement early on Thursday did not specify numbers. However, the Home Office said officials would work with UN refugee agency UNHCR to identify youngsters who would be eligible for residence.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced in September that 20,000 refugees from camps on Syria's borders would be brought in by 2020. More than 1,000, half of them children, have so far arrived.
But the UK has opted out of European Union quotas for taking migrants and dispersing them around the 28-nation bloc.
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