Katy's father in Waiting For the Sky to Fall, and Prue's father in Love Lessons, are extremely controlling, demanding and emotionally abusive towards their children. She also doesn't even notice when Megs is the one who's got the fever and tries to dismiss it by saying that she is just "grizzly" - had she not let Clover out when she did, Megs would have literally died of neglect. Mildred in Clover Moon is regularly physically abusive towards Clover, and locks her in the closet under the stairs in the dark for as long as she can when she's in quarantine for scarlet fever, prolonging it until Clover's father insists on letting her out. Selma's mother and stepfather in The Butterfly Club. Charlie's character Lottie in "The Lottie Project" had an alcoholic abusive father who kept the family in poverty and had recently died. Tracy also mentions that before going to the "Dumping Ground", she lived with "Aunt" Peggy: a foster carer who frequently hit her and yelled at her. It's implied that Tracy Beaker was abused by her mother's boyfriends before being taken into care. It is implied that this is the reason that Lola Rose's mother gets cancer. Lola Rose's father, who, like Cookie's, was initially abusive to her mom and later to her as well. She expresses a fear that she is also one later on. Marigold mentions that her mother was abusive, and she spent most of her childhood in care homes. She ends up not posting it on the website, instead saying that she's worried about starting to get spots instead. The Worry Website also has Lisa's dad, her main worry being that she finds out that he's been hitting her mum. There's also Elsa's stepfather (nicknamed "Mack the Smack" because he hits her) in The Bed and Breakfast Star note Its unclear though, given that The Bed and Breakfast Star was published in the 1990s, if its more of a case of Values Dissonance, as at the time, smacking your children was seen as an acceptable way to punish your children, Mary's mother in The Diamond Girls and Treasure's stepfather in Secrets. Abusive Parents: The titular heroine of Cookie has a father who borders on this, and is certainly abusive to his wife. Also shown on CBBC is Hetty Feather from the Hetty Feather books. 
Tracy Beaker has been adapted on CBBC as The Story of Tracy Beaker and its sequels Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground.
Several of her books have been adapted for TV: Memoirs: Jacky Daydream, My Secret Diary.
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