Sinead didn't have the most amazing start to her life. She ran away from her first Care Home with her best friend Lucas. But when they're both found, they're taken to AshDene Ridge, where only a few people try to make them feel welcome. Lucas finds a friend in Harry, Tyler and Bailey, and finds an enemy in no one. Whereas Sinead finds a friend in Floss, Bailey, Kazima and Jody but finds an enemy in Carmen. What happens when Sinead has to say goodbye to her best friend? Who will she turn to for comfort? Sinead always loved mysteries, so can she figure out what's going on in the one and only Ryan Reeves' mind? And what happens when she suspects that Floss could be her sister?

The Dumping Ground is where kids who don't have their mums and dads anymore, go to. Summer's brother Johnny badly wants to get fostered but Summer wants to stay. Their relationship as brother and sister falls apart and something happens to the house.

Bella is a care kid. Her parents died when she was seven. After getting fostered she's moved to Elm Tree house. Soon her best friend from Layla's arrives at the dumping ground. Bella is falling hard for Rick Barber and he likes her too , and soon enough they get together , everything's perfect , well apart from the endless drama in The Dumping Ground.