People with learning disabilities live and spend time in a wide variety of settings and services, including health and social care, voluntary and paid employment, education and leisure environments. As part of their nurse education programmes, learning disability nursing students spend half their time on practice placements. Expanding the use of indirect supervision and assessment models so that this wide variety of settings can be used to increase placement capacity, which is useful to universities and gives students exposure to a broad range of experiences, may support workforce development in the longer term. The healthcare landscape is changing to enable more effective and prolific use of social care organisations, so it is essential that students from all fields of nursing and the allied health professions have opportunities for exposure to experiences away from traditional ward and clinic environments. This article presents a project that aimed to increase the number of placements for learning disability nursing students and involved the implementation of an indirect supervision and assessment model.