A wireless communications network comprising a plurality of infrastructure equipment (1002, 1004, 1006, 1008) each being configured to communicate with one or more others of the infrastructure equipment via a backhaul communications link, one or more of the infrastructure equipment each being configured to communicate with one or more communications devices via an access link, wherein a second of the infrastructure equipment is configured to communicate signals representing data between a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network and the second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more others of the infrastructure equipment (1004, 1006) acting as relay nodes, the second infrastructure equipment being a child node and one of the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes or the donor node being a parent node, the parent node being connected to the child node via a backhaul communications link and configured to allocate uplink communications resources to the child node, and a triggering infrastructure equipment which is one of the child node and the parent node is configured to determine that a trigger condition for the child node to communicate with the donor node over a second communications path via one or more other of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes is satisfied, the second communications path being different to the first communications path, and to transmit, in a Medium Access Control, MAC, control element, a route change command to the other of the child node and the parent node to the triggering infrastructure equipment or when the child node is the triggering infrastructure equipment, to transmit the route change command to one of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes on the second communications path, the route change command indicating that the child node should communicate with the donor node over the second communications path, and the child node is configured to communicate with the donor node over the second communications path, wherein the MAC control element comprises an indication of why the triggering infrastructure equipment determined that the trigger condition was satisfied. to communicate signals representing data between a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network and the second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more others of the infrastructure equipment (1004, 1006) acting as relay nodes, the second infrastructure equipment being a child node and one of the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes or the donor node being a parent node, the parent node being connected to the child node via a backhaul communications link and configured to allocate uplink communications resources to the child node, and a triggering infrastructure equipment which is one of the child node and the parent node is configured to determine that a trigger condition for the child node to communicate with the donor node over a second communications path via one or more other of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes is satisfied, the second communications path being different to the first communications path, and to transmit, in a Medium Access Control, MAC, control element, a route change command to the other of the child node and the parent node to the triggering infrastructure equipment or when the child node is the triggering infrastructure equipment, to transmit the route change command to one of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes on the second communications path, the route change command indicating that the child node should communicate with the donor node over the second communications path, and the child node is configured to communicate with the donor node over the second communications path, wherein the MAC control element comprises an indication of why the triggering infrastructure equipment determined that the trigger condition was satisfied.