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Good afternoon, it's Hayley here with your Thursday afternoon | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
More child refugees from the Middle Eastern country | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
of Syria will be allowed to come to the UK to live. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
The Government will invite kids who've been separated | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
from their families and are currently living in refugee | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
camps, not those who've already made the journey to Europe. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
War and conflict in Syria in the Middle East has sent | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
thousands of people, many of them children, | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
looking for safety in other countries. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Some have travelled to Europe, making the dangerous journey | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Children can get split up from their families and end | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Others are living in refugee camps in countries neighbouring Syria - | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Here they live in tents and shelters. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Last year the Government said that it would allow 20,000 people | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
from camps like these to live in the UK. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Today they've said more children who have been separated | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
from their families will also be able to come. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
The Government's already said it will take 20,000 refugees and | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
resettle them in the United Kingdom over the next five years. But | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
they've come under pressure to do more, especially for children, | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
who've travelled to Europe on their own. Today Ministers responded to | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
that. They said they would give more help, but they are not putting a | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
precise figure on it. They want to focus on those children who've in | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
camps around Syria, in countries like Jordan and Lebanon. Ministers | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
say what they don't want to do is to encourage more families to make a | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
very dangerous journey across Europe. Our political parties such | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
as Labour say they need to help the children who are already here in | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Europe. They say they need our help, too. Some charities like Save the | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Children are worried. The war in Syria has been going on nearly five | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
years now. That's a really long time. Lots of children have already | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
thread that area to try to escape it. It is good news that the | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
Government wants to help those children but it is important they | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
help the children who've already fled and made their way to Europe. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
The details are not clear but more vulnerable children will be able to | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
start a new life in the UK. However, there are still big worries that | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
there are many thousands more already in Europe still at risk. | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Did you know that around the country right now there are thousands | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
of children like you caring for their mum or dad? | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
They're called young carers and take on a lot of the jobs around | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
They do this because their mum or dad isn't well enough to do | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Charlotte is a young carer who looks after her mum. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
One of the first elements I remember about caring for my mum was she | :02:49. | :03:03. | |
never used to be able to do the things other mumgs would do. Often | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
things would become way too much for for her and she would have to lie | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
down and withdraw. As a kid that would make me feel bad, so I try to | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
make her happy and draw stuff for her to lighten her mood. I would see | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
other mums lifting up their kids and going running with them. I would be | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
like, why can't mum do that for me? There was an absence of this kind of | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
fun-loving mumming that I used to know. But she couldn't help it. I | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
don't blame her for that but I knew something wasn't that. A certain | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
teacher that really helped me realise that something was wrong. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
She was one of the first people I ever told and I got support that I | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
needed. I just broke down in tears. I want sad. Sad. It was the realise | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
that that was what's wrong. That the point there was just kind of a, oh | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
my God, that's what's wrong She nodded ot me and said, that's OK, | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
and we are going to work through this. It sounds really cliched but | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
at that moment I really didn't feel like I was completely alone any | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
more. There's a lot of experiences to be had. Some of them are going to | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
be good and some bad. But that's OK, as being a young carer made me who I | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
am. I wouldn't be half as resilient if I hadn't gone through that. I | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
know how to deal with the disappointments and anxieties. I've | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
seen my mum go through it and I've had to go through it with her. Head | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
to the Newsround website if you want to know more about the help | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
available to young carers. One of the world's top paragliders | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
flew under the Northern He had to battle snow | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
storms and even the wires Newsround's back right here on CBBC | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
tomorrow morning at 7.40. | :04:53. | :04:57. |