The Dumping Ground

Tracy Beaker takes charge: Dani Harmer on her directing debut

When The Story of Tracy Beaker was first broadcast in 2002, there was no YouTube or Netflix streaming service, let alone TikTok. Kids, it is said, do not watch traditional TV anymore, yet millions grew up enraptured by Jacqueline Wilson’s care home rebel on CBBC, and now their own children are doing the same.

The Dumping Ground takes home two in RTS North East Programme Awards

Long-running CBBC drama The Dumping Ground won the prestigious Centre Award for its contribution to jobs and opportunities in the region’s screen sector at the RTS North East and the Border Awards in late February.

The children’s show, which made its debut in 2013 and is made by BBC Studios Kids & Family, is set in a care home and has been filmed across the North East. The series is a continuation of the CBBC drama Tracy Beaker Returns, which was based on the novels of Jacqueline Wilson.