The Dumping Ground (2013)

Drama · Family

Following the exploits and antics of children living in a care home. Growing up in a care home brings all sorts of tough challenges, but the kids know that if they stick together, they can get through anything life throws at them.

IMDb rating: 6.9 (841 votes)
Seasons: 13
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 13 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2013)

8.28 avg 13 episodes 8.9 → 8.7 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Freedom Part 1: Home Alone	8.9	44
2	Freedom Part 2: Liberty in the DG	9.0	36
3	Baby	7.6	34
4	S.O.S.	9.2	35
5	What Would Gus Want?	9.2	39
6	The Real Faith Davis	8.2	31
7	The Truth Is Out There	7.0	29
8	Dreamland	7.7	29
9	A Day in the Past	8.5	32
10	Oh Mo!	8.4	28
11	Seriously Funny	6.6	29
12	Esme	8.6	31
13	Scary Beasts	8.7	29

Season 2 (2013)

7.59 avg 15 episodes 5.4 → 7.1 29 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Jody in Wonderland	5.4	32
1	Booting Up Part One: Kick Off	6.4	32
2	Booting Up Part Two: Quitters	6.7	27
3	The Dumping Ground Experience	7.8	27
4	The Barbecue	8.9	26
5	Finding Frank	8.4	27
6	Holding On	7.5	25
7	Endurance	8.3	29
8	I Have a Dream	8.0	24
9	Sticks and Stones	8.5	28
10	G.I. Johnny	8.3	26
11	Be My Girl	7.6	24
12	Hope	9.1	27
13	Liam's Story	5.9	25
14	Face the Music	7.1	25

Season 3 (2015)

7.84 avg 20 episodes 8.4 → 8.9 28 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Law & Disorder Part One: Party Games	8.4	27
2	Law & Disorder Part Two: Grand Theft DG	8.7	25
3	Stuck with You	8.7	22
4	Mischief	8.3	22
5	Now You See Me	5.2	20
6	It's Not About the Money	6.8	21
7	Fake It to Make It	7.2	23
8	Breaking In	8.0	23
9	The Long Way Home	8.7	22
10	Dragon Slayer	8.4	26
11	Three Days	7.4	22
12	Free to Good Home	8.1	23
13	Better Than You	5.8	20
14	Who Are You?	8.6	20
15	Where Is Love?	8.6	21
16	Goodbye Girl	5.9	20
17	Something Borrowed	8.5	24
18	What Matters?	8.7	22
19	Coming Round	7.9	24
20	Refuge	8.9	27

Season 4 (2016)

6.72 avg 20 episodes 6.3 → 7.3

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Lost and Found	6.3	18
2	Bear-Faced Liar	6.1	18
3	Stepping Up	7.8	21
4	They Walk Among Us	3.9	22
5	Hold the Front Page	7.1	19
6	Growing Pains	8.8	25
7	Submarine	6.3	21
8	First Past the Post	7.3	19
9	Survivors	6.4	20
10	The End of It All	7.5	21
11	Perfect Match	6.2	19
12	Doris	7.0	19
13	Risky Business	6.1	21
14	Troll	7.2	19
15	It Takes Two	6.7	18
16	Getting to Know You	6.2	19
17	Two Camps	7.1	19
18	How to Be Perfect	5.2	19
19	One for Sorrow	7.8	21
20	Two for Joy	7.3	21

Season 5 (2017)

6.65 avg 23 episodes 6.1 → 6.8 50 min avg

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Miscreants, Robots and Bullies	6.1	23
2	Back in the Game	6.4	20
3	One Giant Leap	5.5	17
4	The Fairytale Princess	6.9	19
5	Sittin in a Tree	7.2	22
6	Faking It	6.5	17
7	Sasha Bellman P.I.	5.5	18
8	Belief	8.4	20
9	Vox Populi	5.7	17
10	Free	5.6	18
11	The Wardrobe	4.8	18
12	Farvel	9.1	19
13	Choose Your Own Adventure	4.2	20
14	Making Waves	6.4	17
15	The Phantom of Ashdene Ridge	5.5	21
16	The Switch	9.1	19
17	Mission Totally Possible	4.5	20
18	Sick	6.9	18
19	Rough Justice	7.9	22
20	Where You Belong	8.5	18
21	#SaveTheDG	8.1	19
22	What Lies Beneath	7.4	19
23	Dumping Ground Island	6.8	18

Season 6 (2018)

7.20 avg 24 episodes 8.6 → 7.2

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Jody on the Ropes	8.6	20
2	Saved by the Bell	7.6	19
3	Give and Take	7.9	19
4	Heroes	8.8	20
5	SorryNotSorry	6.4	19
6	Cat's in the Cradle	8.2	23
7	Challenging Times	5.4	20
8	Two Sides to Every Story	6.4	18
9	Utopia	7.9	20
10	The Lurgy	8.2	20
11	RyanMan	7.6	18
12	Holding Out for a Hero	7.7	17
13	Stuck	5.9	20
14	The Secret	4.3	18
15	Bird's Song	6.6	17
16	Home	8.1	18
17	Faker	5.4	19
18	Me, Myself and I	8.8	19
19	Jay and Bird's Day Off	6.7	18
20	Wasters	8.6	19
21	Joyless Division	5.5	22
22	No Escaping	6.5	22
23	To Have and Not to Hold	8.6	19
24	Missing Presumed Single	7.2	21

Season 7 (2019)

6.95 avg 24 episodes 8.2 → 6.9

Rollercoaster

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Rage	8.2	23
2	Five Doors	7.2	25
3	The Lone Ranger	8.6	25
4	Face Your Fear	7.2	18
5	Run the Risk	4.0	23
6	Candi-Rose?	6.4	20
7	The Return of the Freaky Twins	6.5	20
8	Snake	7.1	20
9	Three's A Crowd	6.5	18
10	A Mother's Love	8.7	22
11	2 + 2 = 5	6.2	19
12	A Million Ways to Say Goodbye	7.4	21
13	The Boss	8.0	16
14	The Movie Business	7.1	19
15	Two Hands, Four Hands	6.2	16
16	Letting Go	8.7	23
17	Tyler Means Business	4.6	21
18	Go Fish	8.2	15
19	King of Comedy	5.8	15
20	Champions	8.2	15
21	Another Planet	7.2	15
22	Reunion	4.9	19
23	Mighty Mike Milligan	6.9	18
24	The Last Dance	6.9	20

Season 8 (2020)

6.79 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 6.1

Rollercoaster

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Natural Selection	7.7	18
2	Follow My Leader	7.1	14
3	Auld Lang Syne	6.6	12
4	Somebody	6.1	13
5	Sugar and Spice	7.5	14
6	Love Hearts and Roses	5.5	13
7	A Matter of Life and Debt	6.9	12
8	Risk	5.8	14
9	The Replacement	6.9	12
10	Do the Right Thing	7.6	13
11	Trouble in Paradise	8.2	17
12	Go Your Own Way	8.2	17
13	What's Mine is Mine	4.5	10
14	Shattered	3.3	12
15	Keeping Face	7.5	12
16	Everybody Needs a Friend	6.5	12
17	Truth or Scare	5.4	10
18	Sasha Claus	7.3	12
19	Great Expectations	7.7	12
20	Snakes and Ladders	7.3	12
21	Nobody's Perfect	7.3	11
22	Broken Record	6.9	11
23	Far From the Tree	9.1	14
24	Dream Life	6.1	12

Season 9 (2021)

6.20 avg 20 episodes 4.1 → 8.6

Rollercoaster

Season 9 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Moment of Truth	4.1	10
2	Sweet and Sour	8.4	10
3	The Remote	7.4	10
4	The Diwata of Ogleton Wood	4.4	9
5	Old Friends	4.2	9
6	Partners in Crime	5.9	8
7	Festival Fibber	8.1	14
8	Losing Your Cool	4.1	10
9	Memory Lane	7.0	10
10	Run, Rescue, Repeat	6.3	10
11	Saviour	6.2	9
12	Friend Zone	6.0	11
13	Face to Face	8.6	9
14	Finders Keepers	5.1	9
15	The Beat Goes On	7.2	10
16	The Brothers Murray	4.5	9
17	Rocket Man	5.1	9
18	Stand Up	5.1	8
19	The Master Plan	7.8	9
20	Breaking Chains	8.6	12

Season 10 (2022)

6.75 avg 20 episodes 6.9 → 6.2

Rollercoaster

Season 10 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Hole New Start	6.9	12
2	Over and Out	5.0	11
3	We Aren't Family	6.7	10
4	My Greatest Composition	6.9	10
5	Frogs on a Train	7.8	12
6	Take Flight	5.9	11
7	The Real Candi-Rose	7.2	11
8	The Dodo	8.0	12
9	Trapped	6.0	10
10	The Hardest Word	8.0	11
11	Under New Management	7.4	10
12	The Mole Hunt	6.8	11
13	Natural Habitat	6.3	10
14	Karma Drama Queen	6.5	8
15	Intergalactic	4.5	10
16	Sister to Sister	6.9	10
17	Mother's Day	6.9	8
18	Life Is What You Bake It	8.1	10
19	The Monster Within	7.0	12
20	Bright Sparks	6.2	8

Season 11 (2024)

5.57 avg 10 episodes 3.5 → 6.1

Slow burn

Season 11 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Welcome Home	3.5	18
2	I Can Explain	3.8	19
3	Imagine	5.6	16
4	Seeing Red	6.0	8
5	Likes	6.7	8
6	Mum's The Word	5.6	8
7	Coming Clean	4.7	8
8	Big Little Fibs	6.1	9
9	Fly Away Home	7.6	7
10	Bring the House Down	6.1	7

Season 12 (2024)

5.15 avg 8 episodes 3.9 → 4.5

Mid-peak

Season 12 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Tooth Fairy	3.9	10
2	Picnic 'n' Mix	4.0	8
3	Trouble Doubled	6.9	9
4	Same But Different	6.1	8
5	Best Day Ever	4.7	8
6	Swapsies	5.8	12
7	The Howling	5.3	6
8	Day Trip	4.5	8

Season 13 (2025)

6.49 avg 7 episodes 6.5 → 7.9

Season 13 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Wild Card	6.5	6
2	Bonnie Rides Again	5.0	6
3	WrestlePalooza	7.5	9
4	Game Over	7.0	7
5	The Right Place	6.3	6
6	The Magicians Oath	5.2	6
7	Chaos and Confessions	7.9	7

The Dumping Ground (2013)

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