DUNGAVEL HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRE (IRC)
Detainment Camps
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedType: Immigration detention centre (Administrative) Custodial Authority: UK Visas and Immigration Management: GEO Group Ltd (Private For-Profit) Detains: Adult women, Adult men, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative) Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre is located near Strathaven in South Lanarkshire, Scotland and accommodates 125 men and women.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 215
- What help is neededThe Centre is operated in accordance with the Detention Centre Rules 2001 and Home Office Operating Standards and provides a wide-range of facilities to meet Detainees' needs, including: Accredited education courses Library Garden ICT Suite Indoor Sports Hall Fitness Suite Five aside Football Pitch Chapel, Mosque, and Multi-Faith Facilities Shop Healthcare
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative) Custodial Authority: UK Visas and Immigration Management: GEO Group Ltd (Private For-Profit) Detains: Adult women, Adult men, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative) Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre is located near Strathaven in South Lanarkshire, Scotland and accommodates 125 men and women. We operate the facility on behalf of the Home Office, holding people being detained under immigration powers pending their departure from the UK. The Centre is operated in accordance with the Detention Centre Rules 2001 and Home Office Operating Standards and provides a wide-range of facilities to meet Detainees' needs, including: Accredited education courses Library Garden ICT Suite Indoor Sports Hall Fitness Suite Five aside Football Pitch Chapel, Mosque, and Multi-Faith Facilities Shop Healthcare
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against the retained source record, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 1 human-impact figure was separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 215 retained at 2021-04-02
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
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Verified
SHA-256 1901b4461ced343ffddded82c7adc6a4add33952950c5035eb8db4de0ef24c94No external source link was stored for this record.