This month we’ll be highlighting our recent work with Oadby & Wigston Borough Council, introducing WasteStart (our new partner for crew and vehicle scheduling software), and inviting you all to our (infamous?) Christmas Webinar!
We’ll also be covering our sponsorship of the APSE Street Cleansing Seminar and our trailblazing project to utilise grass cuttings in partnership with South Gloucestershire Council.
It has been our absolute pleasure to assist Oadby & Wigston Borough Council with a highly successful rollout of our SmartSuite software solution.
Oadby & Wigston Borough Council cover part of Leicestershire – an area with Medieval and Anglo-Saxon roots and a population of around 60,000.
Their team approached us earlier this year with a view to utilising several modules of our SmartSuite solution, including:
All services are managed from a single, map-based platform in the Cloud that enables teams to track day-to-day service activity in real time, make instant & effective operational decisions and view service history. Apply live updates to service data for mobile operatives, and synchronise routing data.
Tasks are created and assigned in Jobs Management and delivered to operatives in SmartSuite Mobile.
The in-cab solution navigates drivers along optimised routes using GPS. This creates completion data and enables the users to report issues, including creating ad-hoc jobs for non-service specific tasks.
Two way messaging allows immediate communication between operations management and the crews.
Integrated Skills is proud to be helping South Gloucestershire Council turn grass cuttings from waste into a valuable resource; cutting carbon emissions, reducing costs, and avoiding needless biodiversity loss.
By processing collected cuttings, the council can create clean energy, fuels, and even road-surface materials.
In August 2025, Integrated Skills carried out a detailed survey of litter contamination in grass verges along the A4174 dual carriageway – before and after cutting. The analysis provided the council with vital, previously unavailable data on litter content within collected cuttings.
The survey formed part of the Live Labs 2 (Greenprint) project; a collaboration between South Gloucestershire Council, West Sussex County Council, and academic and industry partners.
The initiative explores how local authority grass cuttings can be transformed into green energy and biochar, a sustainable additive for road surfacing.
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Never ones to rest on our laurels, this quarter has seen some key enhancements to our SmartSuite offering:
Introducing WasteStart – our new partner for crew and vehicle scheduling software.
In their own words, WasteStart allows Operations Managers and Dispatchers to:
This brilliant system also allows teams to evaluate the impact of absences and proactively resolve shortages as well as monitor vehicle availability and plan ahead to stay on track.
It even incorporates AI to produce accurate recommendations, allowing users to resolve scheduling conflicts with one click.
A festive tradition almost as beloved as (vegan)pigs-in-blankets, the Integrated Skills Christmas Webinar is back!
This year’s event features:
We’ll reflect on 2025’s waste management highlights and dive into some hot topics with leading thinkers.
We’re elated to welcome Oadby & Wigston, Newcastle City and Dundee to the SmartSuite user community – we can’t wait to see the positive impact this far-reaching solution will have.
For our second year, Integrated Skills are delighted to be the lead sponsors for the APSE Street Cleansing & Street Scene Seminar 2026, taking place on the 5th February 2026 at the National Conference Centre (Motorcycle Museum) in Solihull.
Last year’s event was absolutely brilliant. Local authorities presented papers on the challenges within their street scene services and describing the innovative ideas they were developing to raise service quality.
Anyone interested in attending should contact m.paton@spacehouse.co.uk
“We needed an in-depth Waste Composition Analysis to further our understanding of the various waste streams created by different areas of the community. Having worked with Integrated Skills for for nearly twenty years we knew they were the right choice.
The team were fantastic…working like a well-oiled machine to meticulously separate and analyse the waste. Their analysis included the contents of the black bags (a rarity in the sector), and this information was absolutely key.
I can’t recommend them enough; lovely to work with, great at what they do and the services they offer are based on a deep understanding of what local authorities need.”
Vanessa Kelly, Waste Services and Projects Manager, West Northamptonshire Council
A life-time, partnership approach to working with clients has led to decades of success since our incorporation in 1993.
We have continually developed new and innovative software and services for clients since our inception, and will continue to create the tools our sector needs for many years to come.
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