The Dumping Ground series 6

The sixth series of the British children's television series The Dumping Ground began broadcasting on 12 January 2018 on CBBC and ended on 7 December 2018. The series follows the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Ashdene Ridge, nicknamed by them "The Dumping Ground". It consisted of twenty-four, thirty-minute episodes, airing in two halves in January and September; ten episodes for the second half premiered a week early on BBC iPlayer. It is the fourteenth series in The Story of Tracy Beaker franchise.

Main
• Connor Byrne as Mike Milligan

• Miles Butler-Hughton as Tyler Lewis

• Kia Pegg as Jody Jackson

• Sarah Rayson as Floss Guppy

• Stacy Liu as May-Li Wang

• Lewis Hamilton as Ryan Reeves

• Ruben Reuter as Finn McLaine

• Annabelle Davis as Sasha Bellman

• Hannah Moncur as Chloe Reeves

• Yousef Naseer as Joseph Stubbs

• Jethro Baliba as Archie Able (episodes 1-8 only)

• Carma Hylton as Candi-Rose

• Connor Lawson as Alex Walker

• Jasmine Uson as Taz De Souza

• Emily Burnett as Charlie Morris

• Leo James as Bird Wallis (from episode 7)

• Cole Wealleans-Watts as Jay Wallis (from episode 7)

Guest
• Lauren Drummond as Hilde

• Victoria Alcock as Denise Jackson

• Ian Reddington as Grant

• Alexander Aze as Dexter Bellman (episodes 1 and 5)

• Gary Lucy as Billy McLaine

• Gary Lineker as himself

• Dani Arlington as Aileen Peters

• Isla McMonigle as Alice Peters

• Michelle Collins as Fiona Johnson

• Lucy Goodings as Emi

• Anya Jurowska as Amelie

• Kelton Hoyland as Brandon

• Colin Briggs as BBC News Presenter

• Micky Cochrane as John

• Kate Victors as Jacinda

• Annette Badland as Mavis Crinkle

• Louis Mahoney as Henry Lawrence

• William Talbot as Ross Maydons

• Diveen Henry as Sally Lewis

• Omar Malik as Kamal Hameed

• Oliver Wellington as Sam

• Jessie Williams as Lily Kettle

• Henry Miller as Steven Redpen

• Dani Harmer as Tracy Beaker

• Mia McKenna-Bruce as Tee Taylor

• Chris Slater as Frank Matthews

• Richard Wisker as Liam O'Donovan

• Kasey McKellar as Bailey Wharton

• Nelly Currant as Toni Trent

• Gwen Currant as Billie Trent