The trust has created the role to aid parenting support and take a "high-profile position in raising awareness of the view and interests" of parents in the county.
The commissioner's main responsibilities will be to ensure the trust's parenting support strategy is in line with other strategies and to ask parents, carers and foster parents what their needs are.
Pam Goodwin, Staffordshire Children's Trust's manager, said that having a dedicated post was unusual. "The old Department for Education and Skills charged each authority with appointing a commissioner for parenting support," she said. "Some authorities are doing it as part of other roles, but we will have a dedicated person."
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