The Dumping Ground is a British children'sdrama series that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people and their care workers in care, broadcast on CBBC. The programme began on 4 January 2013, with one series airing each year since.[1][2][3][4][5] As of 6 December 2024,[update] 220 episodes of The Dumping Ground have aired.
Jody is faced with a terrible dilemma when she's asked to make a witness statement against her brother Kingsley. Jody leaves Mike's office seeing a rabbit. Following the rabbit, she enters a rather unfamiliar world with strangely familiar – yet utterly different – characters.
After the end of the episode, The End Of It All in series 4, a five-minute crossover between The Dumping Ground and Hetty Feather aired on CBBC, titled A Special Dumping Ground Adventure. Its official title (according to CBBC Online) is Floss The Foundling and has instead used this title online and in subsequent TV airings.
When Floss has to do the vacuuming. she ruins a picture that Tyler, Billie and Toni work on when they don't want her help. Floss falls asleep on the sofa and ends up in the Foundling Hospital. She encounters Hetty Feather, who introduces Floss to the Foundling Hospital ways. Sheila and Elizabeth are mean towards Floss and Hetty gets Floss out of trouble with Matron Bottomley. Floss and Hetty make friends. When Floss wakes up, she draws a replacement picture.
After the end of series 5, an hour special aired, titled Dumping Ground Island. It is filmed in the North East of England as well as Crete, Greece. It is the first episode across the Tracy Beaker franchise that has been filmed abroad.[30]
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"Dumping Ground Island"
David Innes Edwards
Owen Lloyd-Fox
22 December 2017 (2017-12-22)
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The young people talk to Tyler about their problems for the Kids in Care forum and he is pressured into solving them. May-Li is concerned about Tyler's lack of sleep over his work for his podcast and suggests he interviews the young people. Floss wants Ryan to teach her to be evil. Tyler daydreams when Jody asks for his help with her mum and Tyler tells Jody about an island he dreams he could run away to. For his podcast, Tyler insults the young people using false names and after Ryan finds Tyler's notes for the forum in the bin, Ryan distracts him away. Ryan shares the podcast recording with the young people and Tyler escapes to his room to dream about the island. Tyler finds himself on his dream island and explores, swims and climbs, but he isn't happy when Jody, Ryan, Sasha and Dexter turn up and Ryan and Jody insist Tyler is in charge to find food. Floss later arrives on the island. Ryan finds a fridge with fruit and fills up his bag, but when he returns to the young people, he refuses to share. In the cave, Tyler's laptop plays a message to him and Ryan agrees to share the food if they build the shelter. Sasha and Dexter fall out when Sasha calls Dexter names and Sasha works out Jody likes Tyler. Back at the cave, Tyler thinks he has bipolar and Ryan winds Jody up about Tyler not liking her. Jody goes to the cave and tells Tyler it's her birthday and her mum forgot. Tyler rubbishes what Ryan said and kisses Jody, which shocks her, but Jody kisses Tyler back. When Tyler snaps out of his dream, he tells Dexter that Sasha cares about him, he gets Ryan to teach Floss how to be evil and leaves Jody a birthday card.
Sasha's Contact Meeting (2018)
After the end of the first half of series 6, a five-part mini webisode series was shown on BBC iPlayer, titled Sasha's Contact Meeting. It featured Annabelle Davis as Sasha Bellman and Endy McKay as Jenny Holmes, Sasha's new social worker.[31]
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"Sasha's Contact Meeting: Episode 1"
Michael J Ferns
Lauren Sequeira
6 April 2018 (2018-04-06)
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Sasha tells her vlog viewers that she has had to miss a trip to the theme park to see her social worker, Maureen. Sasha goes to see Maureen but finds another woman there, who introduces herself as Jenny Holmes and her new social worker. Sasha insists she does not need a pathway plan as she knows what she wants to do, but tells her vlog viewers the meeting will not last long.
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"Sasha's Contact Meeting: Episode 2"
Michael J Ferns
Lauren Sequeira
6 April 2018 (2018-04-06)
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Sasha tells Jenny that she feels meeting will not be worth it for her. When Jenny asks Sasha about her education, Sasha plans to study Art, but Jenny wants proper answers from Sasha. Sasha attempts to question Jenny about her being a social worker, but Jenny wants to focus on the plan. Jenny then asks Sasha about what she will do for money, but Sasha refuses to answer. When Jenny is out of the room, Sasha pours water over her documents and then wants to film her reaction, but Jenny notices the phone. Jenny insists they are going to complete the plan.
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"Sasha's Contact Meeting: Episode 3"
Michael J Ferns
Lauren Sequeira
6 April 2018 (2018-04-06)
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Jenny tells Sasha she has to respect people's privacy and Sasha chooses to ignore Jenny's request by using her phone. Sasha rubbishes Jenny's belief that she is scared and tells Jenny her interests. Jenny then asks Sasha about where she will live when she has left care as she knows Sasha chose not to live with her mum, asking if she wants to live independently. Jenny brings up Sasha's anger, which is the same way she acted when she was going to live in secure accommodation, and Sasha denies she is angry.
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"Sasha's Contact Meeting: Episode 4"
Michael J Ferns
Lauren Sequeira
6 April 2018 (2018-04-06)
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When Jenny tries to talk about Sasha's emotions, Sasha insists she is in control and independent and walks out of her meeting. She locks herself in her bedroom and turns up her music to get Jenny to leave her alone. Jenny leaves Sasha a note, telling her she is in the garden and an emotional Sasha destroys her canvas.
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"Sasha's Contact Meeting: Episode 5"
Michael J Ferns
Lauren Sequeira
6 April 2018 (2018-04-06)
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Sasha joins Jenny in the garden and Jenny attempts to guess how Sasha feels so she talks. Sasha admits to Jenny she does and does not regret moving back in with her family, but knows it was right not to and has to be independent as well as admitting she is scared. Jenny reassures Sasha that it is normal to feel guilty about putting herself first instead of her family. Sasha also admits she misses Josh and feels like she is the same person she was when she arrived and her anger messes things up. Jenny praises Sasha for talking and encourages her to talk to people.
After The DG (2018)
After The DG, a mini webisode series, is being shown on Instagram.[32] It featured Jessica Revell and Kasey McKellar, reprising their roles as Elektra Perkins and Bailey Wharton respectively. The series was announced in 2018 and is aimed at older fans.[33]
16 July 2018 (2018-07-16) – 4 August 2018 (2018-08-04)
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Elektra is selected as a Young Changemaker. On the scheme, Elektra struggles to fit in and is harassed by her violent ex-boyfriend, Matt. Elektra is tasked to make a short video for social media to encourage change and empower young people as part of the scheme. Elektra fails to make a blog for the scheme and she eventually decides to quit the scheme. Elektra also begins to develop feelings previously unexperienced for her former classmate Sula. Elektra has no money, but decides to take a road trip and Sula joins her. Elektra runs out of money and has no food, but cannot return to work until the cover leaves.
16 July 2018 (2018-07-16) – 4 August 2018 (2018-08-04)
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The Joseph & Taz Files (2018)
In August 2018, a five-part mini webisode series was shown on BBC iPlayer, titled The Joseph & Taz Files. It featured Yousef Naseer as Joseph Stubbs and Jasmine Uson as Taz De Souza.
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"The Joseph & Taz Files: Episode 1"
Will Herbert
Karrissa Hamilton-Bannis
25 August 2018 (2018-08-25)
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Joseph tries to video a comet, but captures strange midnight activity instead. He’s convinced it can all be explained by science, but Taz believes it’s a ghost. How will they solve the mystery?
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"The Joseph & Taz Files: Episode 2"
Will Herbert
Karrissa Hamilton-Bannis
25 August 2018 (2018-08-25)
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Joseph and Taz aren’t getting along, when they find a mysterious footprint in the attic. It has them thinking there is even more to this mystery – if only they could work together to solve it
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"The Joseph & Taz Files: Episode 3"
Will Herbert
Karrissa Hamilton-Bannis
25 August 2018 (2018-08-25)
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Joseph and Taz try to capture more evidence of the ‘ghost’ by setting up another camera and staging a sleepover in the attic. They almost bond before clashing again and Joseph wishes Taz would just disappear…
4
"The Joseph & Taz Files: Episode 4"
Will Herbert
Karrissa Hamilton-Bannis
25 August 2018 (2018-08-25)
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Joseph frantically searches for Taz, using his app and some cameras. He thinks he’s getting close when he gets a huge surprise…
5
"The Joseph & Taz Files: Episode 5"
Will Herbert
Karrissa Hamilton-Bannis
25 August 2018 (2018-08-25)
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The real ‘ghost’ is finally revealed and Joseph and Taz decide to forge a new partnership for the future
Notes
^On screen, the episode was titled "I Troll" for an unknown reason.