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When a new member joins the group, he introduces himself to the other men by sharing the most abusive thing he's done.

"Mine was screaming and shouting in front of my kids," Jason, 38, says. "Letting my children witness that behaviour."

The dad from Oldham , whose name has been changed to protect his family's anonymity, has now completed a 40-week course.

But when social services first referred him to the programme after concerns were raised about his children in school, he refused to go.

Police then got involved, a court order was issued and he had to leave the family home. After losing everything, he changed his mind.

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What he realises now, as he comes to the end of the Bridging to Change programme, is that his b

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