Early Reading Together® supported by the NZ Ministry of Education

Early Reading Together® has now been included (alongside Reading Together®) by the NZ Ministry of Education in the 'School- and community-initiated supplementary supports' here. An excerpt from TKI:

Early Reading Together® helps parents/whānau to read to and talk with their young children (especially babies to 5 and 6 year olds) in ways that build a love of reading and lay a sound language and literacy foundation for children subsequently learning to read themselves.

For further information, please see Reading Together® and Early Reading Together®.

May 2017 Update
Quoting from 'Early Learning General News - May 2017', available here:

Note on Early Reading Together®
Recent changes have opened up funding for Early Reading Together® through early childhood education (ECE) services, Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako and other community-based organisations such as iwi.