If you read the "Personal Rights" that all parents sign when enrolling in a licensed day care facility in California (whether home or center), waking ANY sleeping child is considered a violation as it interferes with a daily living function. I have seen centers get written up for this.

"To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion,
threat, mental abuse, or other actions of a punitive nature, including but not limited to: interference with daily
living functions, including eating, sleeping, or toileting; or withholding of shelter, clothing, medication or aids to
physical functioning."

There is nothing that prevents the center from allowing a child to who is not sleeping after a certain time to get up (that is the center's choice), but once a child is asleep, they cannot wake that child. After the designated "Rest Time" they can turn on the lights and provide typical services for the remaining children which will generally wake other children up, but they cannot physically wake up individual children.

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