A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network comprising a plurality of infrastructure equipment 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 , the method comprising receiving , at a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network, signals representing data from a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more others of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, receiving via an F1 interface, at the first infrastructure equipment, assistance information from the second infrastructure equipment via the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes, determining , by one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes in the case that the assistance information satisfies a trigger condition, that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over a second communications path via one or more other of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, the second communications path being different to the first communications path, transmitting via the F1 interface, by the one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes which determined that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over the second communications path, a route change command to the second infrastructure equipment indicating that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over the second communications path instead of the first communications path, and communicating , by the first infrastructure equipment, with the second infrastructure equipment over the second communications path. receiving , at a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network, signals representing data from a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more others of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, receiving via an F1 interface, at the first infrastructure equipment, assistance information from the second infrastructure equipment via the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes, determining , by one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes in the case that the assistance information satisfies a trigger condition, that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over a second communications path via one or more other of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, the second communications path being different to the first communications path, transmitting via the F1 interface, by the one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes which determined that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over the second communications path, a route change command to the second infrastructure equipment indicating that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over the second communications path instead of the first communications path, and communicating , by the first infrastructure equipment, with the second infrastructure equipment over the second communications path. <EOS>