Dani Harmer (Tracy Beaker), Montanna Thompson (Justine Littlewood), Nisha Nayar (Elaine Boyak), Clive Rowe (Duke Ellington), Lisa Coleman (Cam Lawson), Ciaran Joyce, Ben Hanson, Chloe Hibbert-Waters and James Cartwright all returned to their main roles.

Stephen Crossley and Caroline Bunce returned to their guest starring role as Justine's father, Steve Littlewood and his wife, Carrie respectively.

Adele Azupadi (Rochelle Gadd), Amber Hearst (Alicia Hooper), Ben Batambuze (Luke Youngblood) & Jenny Edwards (Sharlene White) did not return for this series.

Jack Edwards, Kristal Lau, William Tomlin, Darragh Mortell, Abby Rakic-Platt, Nicola Reynolds and Cara Readle all made their debuts as main characters, Marco Maloney, Hayley, Michael Grice, Liam "Crash" Daniels, Jackie Hopper, Shelly Appleton and Layla respectively.

Crossley and Bunce left their guest starring roles, but the characters, Steve and Carrie, returned in the final series, played by Morgan Hopkins and Kathryn Dimery.

Cam joins in the protest, risking her missing her flight and Shelley changes her mind on making Tracy leave.

Meanwhile, Michael falls in love with Louise, giving the other kids a chance to get revenge on him for countless snitching and bullying.

Michael's big brother, James, arrives at the DG on the run from his care home, and he is discovered by Tracy and Jackie.

All goes to plan until Tracy realises that she's got the wrong guy -Wilson, and with Elaine keeping a close eye on her, the house's biggest troublemaker, will Wilson cover for her?

however, it becomes clear to the whole DG when she accepts an invitation to visit Wilson's mother with him in hospital, and whilst out with Cam, she cannot stop talking about him.

Tracy's nose is put out of joint when she's forced to share her room with new arrival Sufia, who doesn't speak English.

Meanwhile, Bouncer, Lol and Jackie get carried away with a game of football, and end up breaking a picture in the lounge, which results in an art competition at the DG.

When they three are forced to pay for it, they attempt to scam Nathan with a game of cards Tracy goes through the motions with three sets of hopeless potential foster parents on a trip to the science museum, until she befriends Jake and Tom, a father and son.

Marco dresses up as a magician for the party but can't seem to do anything magic, until he pinches Duke's flip-flops while he is asleep and sends them up high into the sky tied to helium balloons!

As Justine heads off to begin her new life, Tracy has to face the fact that she's the last kid from the old Dumping Ground gang to be left behind.

Cas Lester left the production team after the previous series and was replaced by the former producer, Jane Dauncey.

They were replaced by Dan Anthony, Simon Nicholson, Holly Lyons, Marvin Close and Ariane Sherine.