TY - JOUR AU - Hay, Kathryn AU - Teppett, Rob PY - 2016/07/08 Y2 - 2024/03/30 TI - Back to the future and back again: Reflections on a student unit JF - Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work JA - ANZSWJ VL - 23 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.11157/anzswj-vol23iss4id147 UR - https://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/147 SP - 26-33 AB - Fieldwork placements are a critical component of social work education. During the 1980s student units were a common model for placements across the statutory social work sector in New Zealand. While these units were replaced in the 1990s and 2000s with a more individualistic approach to social work supervision and placement education, the Site Manager of Child Youth and Family Palmerston North initiated the development of a new unit in 2006. A full-time fieldwork educator was employed to work with social work students on placement. Several benefits of the unit were apparent; however, due to reprioritisation within Child Youth and Family, it was disestablished in 2009. This article traces the establishment and the demise of this student unit and offers comment on the perceived effectiveness of the unit for all of the key stakeholders, that is, the students, Massey University and Child Youth and Family. ER -