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UK to take in more child refugees

The UK is to accept more unaccompanied child refugees from Syria and other conflict zones - but the government has not said how many.
The Home Office will work with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to identify "exceptional cases" from camps in Syria and neighbouring countries.
The UK is to take 20,000 refugees from Syria by 2020 - but campaigners want 3,000 children to be taken from Europe.
Victoria Derbyshire presenter Joanna Gosling spoke to Yvette Cooper MP, who is the chief of Labour's refugee task force, Lily Kaprani, deputy executive director for UNICEF UK and Yasmine Nahlawi from 'Rethink Rebuild' - an organisation which works with Syrians in Manchester.

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