In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention a source node decides to attempt to handover a user equipment to a target cell based at least in part on a comparison of a closed access group information of the user equipment and a stored closed access group information of a target cell associated with the target node. The source sends to the target node a handover message comprising an identifier of the target cell, receives from the target node a handover failure message comprising second closed access group information of the target cell which the source node uses to update the stored closed access group information of the target cell.