The university is the party that must assemble the pre-placement clearance stack, and it issues none of it. A working with children check comes from one of eight state screening units, a police check from a national scheme, an NDIS worker screening check from a state unit again, immunisation evidence from a general practitioner and a pathology laboratory, and the orientation modules from each individual host organisation.

Its position is the structural point. The Commonwealth funds the student's place and, through the Commonwealth Prac Payment, some of the student's income during placement. The state owns the hospital ward or the classroom where the placement happens. The university is accountable for a placement it cannot create and cannot fund. See The Commonwealth pays the student, the state owns the ward, and nobody funds the supervisor.