A Black youth worker has won more than £14,000 after a difficult young person called her a “slave” – and her colleagues tried to downplay it.

Louise Williams-St Louis endured a string of racist remarks from the child, who often used the N-word and called her a “plus-sized baddie”.

However, when Ms Williams-St Louis complained about his conduct, her white colleagues said that the difficult child had also called staff “fat or old”.

A Reading Employment Tribunal judge ruled that “not all insulting comments are of equal gravity” and said that making this comparison was race harassment.

Now, Ms Williams-St Louis has been awarded £14,830.

Ms Williams-St Louis was employed by West Berkshire District Council as a youth turn-around intervention worker in its Youth Justice Support Team from July 2023.

Louise Williams-St Louis sued West Berkshire District Council for race harassment (Google Maps)

In April 2024, she was looking after a young person, anonymised in the tribunal’s decision as Young Person X.

He was…