OXFAM made urgent appeals today for stronger efforts between agencies reuniting child refugees and their families on their journey into Europe.

The British aid charity called for measures to be put into place immediately after official figures showed the number of minors travelling alone had increased.

Oxfam humanitarian programme manager in Serbia Anna Sambo said: “We urgently need better co-operation between various agencies working with refugees so that when a family loses a child on the road the alarm can be raised and the child found as quickly as possible.