Placement assessment in physiotherapy has always come with its share of friction. Paper forms misplaced between clinic and campus, feedback captured in a rush and disconnected from any wider picture of progress, supervisors and students working from different versions of the same document. For students navigating multiple placements across three years of study, the experience could feel fragmented, and more of an administrative hurdle than a genuine learning tool. The CPAF 20

A national data initiative helping universities spot emerging risk sooner, understand placement patterns more clearly, and act before disengagement becomes attrition. Every year, too many student nurses leave their programmes before qualifying. The reasons are complex, often personal, and frequently invisible to course teams until it is too late. Yet the early warning signs are there, hidden in the data that students and their supervisors generate every day through practice