The Dumping Ground

The first series was produced in summer 2012 at the former La Sagesse convent school in the Jesmond area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne which had previously been used throughout Tracy Beaker Returns.

Property owners Barratt Homes decided to redevelop the school buildings into a luxury housing estate following the first series, preventing the BBC (and anyone else for that reason) from using the building and production was forced to move to another area of Newcastle.

The first series, consisting of thirteen, thirty-minute episodes, was commissioned in March 2012.

A second series, also with thirteen, thirty-minute episodes, was announced in May 2013.

The third and fourth series, announced in 2014 and 2015 respectively, both had an increase in episodes: twenty, thirty-minute episodes.

In 2018, it was confirmed that two further series, with 24 episodes in each series, would be made.