THE refugee crisis can be solved if there is a will and governments act quickly Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The First Minister spoke at a ‘summit’ she hosted in Edinburgh with councils and agencies to work out how Scotland could offer more help.

She said Scotland should take 1000 refugees as a “starting point, not a limit “and welcomed an apparent change of policy from the Prime Minister who said the UK would accept “thousands” more on top of the 5000 it has already taken.

He had previously said taking more refugees was not the “simple answer”.

Reports suggest Mr Cameron agreed with the United Nations to take an extra 4000 refugees from the hundreds of thousands entering Europe, many from Syria and he said more aid cash would be sent to help refugees in countries in the Middle East.

Ms Sturgeon said: "We need to hear more detail now of exactly what is being proposed in terms of accepting thousands more refugees.

"This crisis is unprecedented in its nature but it is not beyond resolution if we act now and we act firmly, and with a response that matches the scale of the crisis.

"As I said in a letter to the Prime Minister last night, the scale of such a humanitarian emergency is immense but it is not insurmountable."

Mr Cameron said the UK could provide another £100m in aid taking the total contribution to more than £1bn.

He said: “That is the UK's largest ever response to a humanitarian crisis. No other European country has come close to this level of support.

"£60 million of this additional funding will go to help Syrians still in Syria. The rest will go to neighbouring countries, to Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, where Syrian refugees now account for one-quarter of the population.

"Britain's aid is supporting these camps. If we were not doing that, the numbers attempting the dangerous journey to Europe would be far, far higher."

The UN refugee Agency said EU countries should accept 200,000 of the men women and children massed in camps and on the streets many in Greece, Hungary and Calais, in France.

As the crisis deepened and the confrontation between police and refugees at Keleti Station in Budapest, Hungary continued, hundreds of men, women and children, given up on boarding trains began walking along the motorway in an attempt to reach the border with Austria as they try to get to Germany.

Others have left the train at Bicske Station refusing to go to a camp to be processed and reports say hundreds have broken out of a camp close to the border with Serbia.

Charities and aid organisation said the UK was helping with the aid effort but could do more to take people in.

Neil Mathers, head of Save the Children in Scotland, said: “Every European country has a part to play. “The UK government has done particularly well on aid and search and rescue, and has a proud history when it comes to refugees.

“But they are falling behind now on resettlement. To date, we have taken just a tiny fraction of Syrian refugees compared to the numbers given asylum by other European nations, let alone the millions now living in Lebanon, Turkey and others in the region.”

As the UK agreed to accept more people, charities are organising aid and supplies to take to the camps at Calais, in France where thousands are held trying to cross the channel to the UK.

Students at Strathclyde University are organising a collection next week for toiletries, clothing and material for shelter.

Housing officials in Glasgow are meeting next week to discuss how they can offer help to accommodate any refugees who come to the city.

Positive Action in Housing is hosting the event, have a role to play and hopefully as a sector we can respond positively “

Robina Qureshi, Director, said: “We have been inundated with offers of assistance from housing associations, and now want to build on that goodwill. Housing associations have houses. Refugees need temporary shelter.

Jim Strang, Director of Parkhead HA, said: “The Social housing sector cannot simply turn its head away from this growing humanitarian crisis”